Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 2 | She knew because she felt the same herself , the whole damn lot of it , down to the last small detail . |
| 3 | She would pester him until she got exactly what she wanted , down to the last painted fan and embroidered reticule . |
| 4 | In rugby we 're down to the last eight … in the Pilkington Cup … which means Gloucester are two matches away from Twickenham … they 've got a game on their hands tomorrow though … away to first division leaders Orrell |
| 5 | And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card . |
| 6 | She said well it was down to the last two she said , I had a choice between a red and green cushion or a fitness test . |
| 7 | Obviously the pieces gradually reduce in size but I do find that I can work with even very small pieces , as they stay whole and workable down to the last tiny fragment . |
| 8 | Me , I manage British Rail 's timetable , down to the last 66-minute hour . |
| 9 | Yet the resemblance of a modern stick insect to a stick is marvellously good , down to the last fine details of fake buds and leaf-scars . |
| 10 | A 68 put Ballesteros safely through to the last two days but a distressed Olazabal , despite a 69 , faced an anxious wait to see if he would make the cut . |
| 11 | The realistic thing to do is to throw them all into one hat , and let the odd quirk of the draw do what the public , the sponsors and , I suspect , the players want most — a Minor side through to the last eight , and then get a home draw . |
| 12 | the cherry and whites won through to the last eight by beating London Scottish at Kingsholm on Saturday … the score twenty … to seven |
| 13 | The expected backlash arrived this afternoon at Dixon Park when a brilliant display of attacking football against hapless Ballyclare Comrades produced six goals — four of them from David McCallan — enough to see them safely through to the last eight of the TNT Gold Cup . |
| 14 | From next season , the world 's top 16 players will automatically be seeded through to the last 32 of the three overseas ranking events the Dubai Duty Free Classic , European Open and Nescafe Asian Open . |
| 15 | just home from her studies at college in California , teamed up with Welsh junior champion Claire Bennett , also of Mold , to go through to the last four of the women 's doubles . |
| 16 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 17 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 18 | Only one of this year 's Crufts group winners made it through to the last forty ! |
| 19 | Let's spin this out to the last possible second . |
| 20 | After a critical and commercial drubbing was dealt out to the last SCRITTI POLITTI album , GREEN GARTSIDE ran to the hills to lick his wounds . |
| 21 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |