Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |
| 32 | He offers no explanation , as they sit down to dinner , and Anne and Millie talk about other things . |
| 33 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
| 34 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 35 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 36 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 37 | Trot along to 739 Fulham Road , London SW6 for more . |
| 38 | This is a useful aid to accurate manual focusing : zoom in to telephoto , set the focus , and then zoom back out to frame the shot the way you want it . |
| 39 | Moreover the fractal transform technique provides perceptual resolution independence : zoom in to a picture and instead of getting a blocky , pixellated image , the software gives a realistic effect by actually adding detail in that was n't in the original . |
| 40 | According to the book of legends you have just shown us , Arthur came here to drink from the Grail , whilst one of his knights , Sir Bedivere , reputedly took Excalibur down to Narepool which is only three miles from Glastonbury . |
| 41 | As they trace their lazy parabolas back down to earth , these bits twist around slowly , over and over , until they hit the ground with a flop or a flump , splodging out to form round , flattish masses . |
| 42 | An associated space-camera relays the data back down to Earth . |
| 43 | The riddle of the up-and-down interest rates — back down to 10 per cent yesterday . |
| 44 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 45 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 46 | In the absence of CRP , all polymerases bind better to the lac fragment than to the gal fragment ( Fig. 1 , lanes 7 and 9 ) ; in the presence of CRP , with the truncated polymerases , a better binding at gal is observed ( Fig. 1 , lane 10 ) consistent with the absence of cooperativity found at the lac promoter . |
| 47 | Push gently to a count of five and repeat other side . |
| 48 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 49 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 50 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 51 | There were crags up there he 'd heard , real crags , but they were empty now and host only to thriving colonies of brilliant green algae . |
| 52 | Wild-type enzyme and CRP bind cooperatively to the strong lac UV5 promoter whereas the truncated enzymes show exactly the same affinity in the presence or absence of CRP ( Table I ) . |
| 53 | In presence of cAMP-CRP , however , the two proteins bind cooperatively to the DNA and the cooperative DNA binding is mediated by direct protein-protein interactions between the cAMP-CRP and CytR ( 6 , 10 ) . |
| 54 | They flock along to in-service courses . |
| 55 | To maintain high gain down to zero frequency , the amplifier is directly coupled and to overcome the resulting problem of distinguishing between real and pseudo signals , due to , for example , bias or thermal variations , differential circuit techniques are adopted . |
| 56 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 57 | By contrast , particular skills tend only to be identified by those who have specialized by method of intervention ( for example , marital counselling ) or by client sub-group ( for example , fostering and adoption ) . |
| 58 | The shortcomings of the JIC and the secret agencies tend only to be exposed after the kind of failure they exist to prevent . |
| 59 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 60 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |