Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would be completely furnished , down to the last teaspoon . |
| 5 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 6 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After that I replaced everything that may have become contaminated with metal toxins , down to the last grain of sand . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I could have told you every single item of food I had in the cupboard every , down to the last bean ! |
| 11 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 12 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 13 | It had not crossed Flora 's mind that St Saviour 's might need payment for teaching her , only that her place there depended upon her ability to have the right uniform , all the uniform , down to the last sock garter and science overall . |
| 14 | By measuring the scattering of X-rays by hirudin , when linked to a key blood coagulation factor called thrombin , his team deduced its structure down to the last atom . |
| 15 | First the St Sebastian triptych , all finished , down to the last arrowhead and gobbet of blood . |
| 16 | Garden criminals range from gnome-snaffling pranksters to professionals who swoop on country houses at night armed with a crane and a lorry , ready to snatch everything from £20,000 orchids down to the last £700 Koi carp in the pond . |
| 17 | Examining the Bible down to the last letter |
| 18 | That everything they ever went into was planned by you , down to the last detail , ’ Mona was emboldened to add . |
| 19 | To load a program into the computer : this does not mean that the future has been planned down to the last detail , that everything is written ‘ up above ’ . |
| 20 | We believe that only furniture designers who are skilled in every aspect of kitchen design and construction can ensure that your commission reflects your taste and your needs down to the last detail . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail . |
| 23 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 24 | ‘ The discourtesy shown to me , down to the last detail … was not expected and I profoundly resent it , ’ he wrote to his brother after a visit to the new Prime Minister at Chequers . |
| 25 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 26 | Do n't tell me Henry did n't plan Stephen 's dash for the throne down to the last detail , because I 'll never believe it . |
| 27 | They must be correct down to the last detail , in the interests of those who will be affected and in the interests of the project . |
| 28 | In fact most of the story is written , the action scenes carefully planned … right down to the last detail |
| 29 | Went no , no , it 's not , it 's not peach melba , right down to the last detail |
| 30 | She knew she had inherited something unique ; she did not know how to save it ; she found out ; and she did it , down to the last chair cover . |