Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 13 | So a sudden death play-off was required to settle the matter and it was almost all over at the 19th hole . |
| 14 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 15 | It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle . |
| 16 | It was all over in the 10th . |
| 17 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Blanche had left a message for the sergeant to join her in the editor 's office of Inside Out on the fourth floor . |
| 20 | But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Right through from the seventeenth until the early twentieth century those who reached the age of sixty years remained a small but quite steady 5–7 per cent of the English population . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 26 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
| 27 | If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |