Example sentences of "right [adv] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 2 | Even those who slim right down to their goal weight will always find parts they wish were even slimmer ! |
| 3 | They had finally calmed down , smiled sheepishly — albeit damply — at one another , and Joanna had demanded the whole story , from Isabel 's meeting with Guy right down to their arrival at Ashby Chase . |
| 4 | Well , cos that 's to keep the level oven , you see , what they call a level oven crane , but the swan neck crane , that was one wire right from the barrel , right over to your load . |
| 5 | ‘ Either you tell me , or I 'll march right over to his room and ask him . ’ |
| 6 | Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin . |
| 7 | Pip struggling to become a gentleman and find mutual love with Estella takes him through his early teens when he left his apprenticeship right through to his middle-age where the next major change takes place . |
| 8 | ‘ Fucking amazing , you can just ring right through to his office . |
| 9 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 10 | Ronni felt a sear of heat right up to her shoulder . |
| 11 | In Rhodes he had seen a lot of her , right up to her thigh , and Nicholas was right : he was pea-green with envy . |
| 12 | He had stepped right up to her desk . |
| 13 | She turned away from the door , and fell into salt water , right up to her neck . |
| 14 | It should be remembered that there was no prosecution brought under the 1927 act right up to its repeal by a Labour government in 1946 . |
| 15 | From the beginning and right up to its end , it was the centre of social and cultural life in Wolverton . |
| 16 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |
| 17 | But I say it it it became er quite increasingly important right up to its closure er of of er particularly for for catering for Bl for erm pit . |
| 18 | And McHarg seethed : ‘ I am not whingeing because we did not deserve to win , but Dean Richards exploited the offside law right up to its limit . ’ |
| 19 | I nearly walked right up to it cigarette , cigarette , cigarette . |
| 20 | Mary ran into Colin 's room , right up to his bed . |
| 21 | He spoke , however , with a stammer which accentuated his natural shyness right up to his trial , when , miraculously , as some of his followers said , it disappeared . |
| 22 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 23 | And there was a single decker bus then , right , stopped in the middle of the road and there was an Escort and he 'd gone under the back right up to his windscreen like that the back |
| 24 | Yeah , and it was right up to his windscreen |
| 25 | He was active in deaf work right up to his death in 1927 . |
| 26 | ( The Rev. Pearce could never talk right up to his death ) . |
| 27 | John Mackintosh then argued strongly , right up to his death , for a ‘ Yes ’ vote in the referendum on the grounds that only a Scottish Assembly , however imperfect , could sort out the anomalies with Westminster . |
| 28 | And Goethe — although he retained his admiration for the Greeks , and not least for the three tragedians , right up to his death in 1832 — mostly looked in other directions for his inspiration after the unfinished drama Pandora of 1810 . |
| 29 | erm During the four years of war , however , erm and indeed right up to his death in nineteen twenty-two , Proust revised and enlarged his novel so much that it trebled in length , and the publication was not in fact completed until after his death in nineteen twenty-seven . |
| 30 | He did n't want Mrs Wright driving right up to his house . |