Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 2 | Much the biggest is the Electricity Corporation ( NZ$3.3bn ) , followed by the Earthquake and War Damage Commission ( NZ$1.5bn ) , right down to the very capable NZ Symphony Orchestra ( NZ$0.002bn — about £600,000 ) . |
| 3 | Again , in those same areas of England still fewer believed ‘ income should be redistributed from the better off to the less well off ’ . |
| 4 | " Go out in the airfield and we will tell you , and field away out , " they said , I went away out to the most remarkable end until I was on the edge of the main runway . |
| 5 | This RYA recognised school offers a variety of sailing courses catering for the absolute beginner right up to the most advanced sailor . |
| 6 | I trod carefully up to the most important-looking window , and peered in . |
| 7 | The theories in question arose originally out of a joining together of empirical research and clinical observation , some of which go right back to the very earliest descriptions of schizophrenia and it is therefore instructive to consider , first , what Bleuler himself believed to be the essential features of the ‘ disease ’ that he had named . |
| 8 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 9 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 10 | Most of them have a very good knowledge of English , even down to the most obscure idiom , but they are not always fluent in expressing their ideas . |
| 11 | The performance of the instrument belies its humble price ; the action is even and consistent across all twenty-four frets , and even down to the relatively unflappable low B. The minimalist headstock and long top horn combine with the bass 's reasonable weight for a well-balanced and comfortable instrument , with total access to all frets an added bonus . |
| 12 | Certainly I felt , for the first time , that sense of anticipation , of excitement almost , at the prospect ahead of me — a journey down the whole coast of South America , and then on to the very southernmost rim of the world . |
| 13 | He flirts occasionally with the rhinoceros and the camel as self-images , but mainly , secretly , essentially , he is the Bear : a stubborn bear ( 1852 ) , a bear thrust deeper into bearishness by the stupidity of his age ( 1853 ) , a mangy bear ( 1854 ) , even a stuffed bear ( 1869 ) ; and so on down to the very last year of his life , when he is still ‘ roaring as loudly as any bear in its cave ’ ( 1880 ) Note that in Hérodias , Flaubert 's last completed work , the imprisoned prophet Iaokanann , when ordered to stop howling his denunciations against a corrupt world , replies that he too will continue crying out ‘ like a bear ’ . |
| 14 | This was the archaic picture of a king ten times as large as a noble , a noble ten times as large as a merchant — and so on down to the almost imperceptible peasant woman . |
| 15 | Now once he 'd stepped forward on to the on to the shore what happened ? |