Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of the trust owed much to its first chairman , Sir Henry Dale ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 2 | CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season . |
| 3 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
| 4 | No wonder they were upset , relying on Flaxperson for their next social security Giro when down to their last lentil . |
| 5 | That way , we can strip the thing down to its last nut and bolt . |
| 6 | The Board of Trade , a free-trading department down to its last paper-clip , had long opposed this restrictive practice as a conspiracy against the consumer and as a malign , artificial inflator of prices . |
| 7 | His campaign now seems to be down to its last card — to brand Mr Da Silva as a dangerous radical who is bent on introducing Stalinist communism into Brazil . |
| 8 | Enver says he 's down to his last kilo of flour , otherwise his cupboard 's empty . |
| 9 | How cheering it is to read the assurance of that humane , decent and democratic socialist George Orwell that , when down to his last pennies , he would always spend them on tobacco rather than food . |
| 10 | His wealth is a matter of awestruck tabloid speculation ; his parsimony a thing of show-business legend : " Andrew was almost broke when he was down to his last £3 million , " one friend remembers . |
| 11 | One irate caller promised : ‘ If I was down to my last spoonful of petrol , with a hundred miles still to go , I 'd drive past an Elf station . ’ |
| 12 | Soon we were down to our last lumps of coal . |
| 13 | We 're down to our last tumbler … |
| 14 | You 'll soon begin to feel like a million dollars even if you 're down to your last cent . |
| 15 | Ooh you 're getting down to your last tuppence . |
| 16 | Strangely , this is not one of the books mentioned by Mr Taylor , perhaps because the Sunday Times will be giving a page or so to it next week . |
| 17 | The City Research project is now moving in to its second year and has already seen the publication of three reports . |
| 18 | Norman White has been under cross examination as the trial at Bristol Crown Court comes in to its third week . |
| 19 | He 's got two of them that go in to his next room |
| 20 | Dedicated souls have , in the last few years , congregated at the Mile End wall in east London — a trip that takes your correspondent half an hour ; a length of time that sees most Sheffielders halfway to their first route at Stanage . |
| 21 | Friends drove him away to his first night of freedom in twenty months . |
| 22 | He seemed in a hurry to get away to his next appointment . |
| 23 | Norwich City0 Sunderland1 THE John Byrne and Malcolm Crosby FA Cup roadshow has rolled all the way to Wembley after Sunderland overcame First Division opposition at Hillsborough yesterday to squeeze through to their first final in 19 years . |
| 24 | He 's through to his first World Longtrack final … where he 'll be lining up against the best speedway and grasstrack riders . |
| 25 | Well let's say , if you feel you 've got more than , you should hand over to somebody next time . |
| 26 | This can be anything from a loan of £10 to tide your sister over to her next pay cheque , to substantial gifts like giving your grandson the money for the deposit on his first house . |
| 27 | Then one time after we 've had a rough mission and trying to get back on flying status an'all , we flew over to your Hundredth Bomb Group field and this did the there with crew . |
| 28 | It clearly implies a world order in which the prime virtue is obedience , not a world order that 's exactly to our twentieth century democratic taste , but then after all not a world order altogether to Milton 's taste , as we can remind ourselves by thinking of his plea for unlicensed printing the Areopagitica . |
| 29 | Holmes , the former IBF champion now close to his 36th birthday , simply did not have the legs or power left to unhinge the champion . |
| 30 | It was a relief when she dashed off to her next call . |