Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 2 | If you were designing the ultimate holiday resort for Club 18–30 , you would copy San Antonio right down to the last bar and grain of sand . |
| 3 | The restoration of this historic fighter has been completed right down to the last detail , it carries a complete set of camera ports , although the cameras have not been fitted . |
| 4 | They expect you to know exactly how many there are , even the exact number of barn owls in the British Isles , right down to the last check . |
| 5 | A tie break situation was forced when with each team having won one leg , they both recorded exactly the same weight , right down to the last gramme , in the third and final match . |
| 6 | Caroline discovered that Nicolo had not bought too much food , because they finished it all , right down to the last bit of crusty , delicious bread . |
| 7 | In fact most of the story is written , the action scenes carefully planned … right down to the last detail |
| 8 | Went no , no , it 's not , it 's not peach melba , right down to the last detail |
| 9 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 10 | Move down on to the second page then . |
| 11 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 12 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 13 | So up to the third bay ; all the area at the western end up to the gangway was devoted to Tilt Van repairs under chargehand W. Hyde ( Ponnie ) . |
| 14 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
| 15 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |
| 16 | This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well . |
| 17 | Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail . |
| 18 | I think we outnumbered their support here , it was it gave the players a great lift , it was tremendous erm all credit to them erm we will drag even more along to the next game . |
| 19 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 20 | If you are unlucky and suffer a bad frost-burn , be prepared to prune the stems further back to the next dormant eye , whatever its direction , and whatever the date . |
| 21 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |
| 22 | It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War . |
| 23 | Instead of getting out at her own floor she went on up to the fourth floor , and stood in front of Matthew Prescott 's front door . |
| 24 | There are three staircases in the house , including a great one of oak which leads right up to the second floor , where the rooms are spacious — not designed for servants — and the views stretch to the Long Mynd . |
| 25 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 26 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 27 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 28 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |
| 29 | Right up to the nineteenth century the winegrowers of Anjou and Touraine would refer to their best wines as " vins pour la mer " , the wines which were going to be taken down to the sea via Nantes . |
| 30 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |