Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to [pos pn] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |
| 2 | While civil servants and directors wade through the legal quagmire of whether to record unmet needs , many staff who have to implement the policy are already up to their necks in it . |
| 3 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |
| 4 | He was active in deaf work right up to his death in 1927 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate . |
| 8 | Seems we 're both up to our necks in it now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We could trickle silently down to your house in the dark and creep into your bedroom for a midnight feast . ’ |
| 10 | In bright sunshine and intense heat the Dutch Guards , ten abreast , led by their massed drums , deployed out of a narrow valley between the hills and plunged into the river , to wade across , sometimes up to their necks in water , under heavy fire , emerging with ardour undimmed , to storm the enemy breastworks . |
| 11 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to be absolutely up to my eyebrows in work this week-end . |