Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 10 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 11 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 12 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 13 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 14 | The simple truth is that we have both bowled extremely professionally throughout the last series against England . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 17 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 18 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 19 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 20 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 21 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 22 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 24 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 25 | Perhaps only in the next life . |
| 26 | It was perhaps only in the last ten years that Broadstairs had fully come to realise what treasure trove lay buried in its midst , and plaques began enthusiastically to sprout everywhere . |
| 27 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 28 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 29 | That trend matches the trend in television projections of party unity , which were more favourable to Labour at the start and end of the campaign , but more favourable to the Conservatives in the middle , especially so in the third week . |
| 30 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |