Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 2 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 3 | ‘ Then get down to that church , ’ he said , ‘ and tell them the wedding 's off . ’ |
| 4 | I put it down to that welt in his shoulder . |
| 5 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 6 | The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level . |
| 7 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |
| 8 | Perhaps they could now get each episode of Eldorado down to that length . |
| 9 | If it comes down to that , I would need to think it over . |
| 10 | I feel the improvement we have seen in him is down to that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Society demands instant success , and it 's partly down to that little box sitting in your room . |
| 12 | ‘ We see the volume just getting down to that core set who will see increased demand , ’ he said , adding that the industry 's top 10 companies had 58% of 1992 sales . |
| 13 | The reason for the difference is that the ERM sets , and attempts to maintain , nominal exchange-rate targets , thus squeezing inflation down to that of the most slowly inflating country . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure I could stand shlapping up and down to that bloody clinic time and time again . |
| 15 | Well I r , I r , I reckon I reckon you can down to that , yeah . |
| 16 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 17 | sorting out and then I 've got to go down to that conference and fly up to Stone Haven |
| 18 | Nothing has basically changed , however : the mimicry of bygone styles remains just as immaculate as in Visconti 's work , not only in costumes and hairstyles , in sets and shop-fronts , but down to that surprisingly potent signifier of the recent past , the typeface ( as in all those beguiling un-period credit titles ) . |
| 19 | Bertrand Russell 's were n't and a nice pickle he got himself into , though I 'd put it all down to that secretary if I were asked . |
| 20 | The PLAYER is in the downstage corner still ROS comes down to that exit . |
| 21 | And then it went down there , and then it was er er a registerer , and then the vicar come from this place , here , down to that one . |
| 22 | You see the cage used to go down to that and it used to you see ? the f the four for you to get off you see ? |
| 23 | This she did , knocking her ball down to that stretch of fairway fronting the green before chipping to 2 feet and making off with a par . |
| 24 | He wondered how early Kerrison would expect to get down to that job . |
| 25 | It is power that is going to ensure go down to that level of decision making , to those people who know the problems best and would be able to deliver the right solutions . |
| 26 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose it boils down to that … |
| 28 | Blackwells , with its nationwide spread , experienced huge differences in trading , from a 20% increase in Aberdeen to 7% in Oxford , static in Cardiff ( ‘ good , considering Waterstones had just opened ’ ) , to a decrease at Georges in Bristol because of the new Galleries mall in Broadmead , which drew people down to that end of town . |
| 29 | Just as soon as you are better " — and she meant both of them — " we 'll get out the carriage and go down to that sweet little shop of Miss Adeane 's to buy bonnets and shawls and order new dresses . |
| 30 | We left the manor and went down to that silent tomb of a church . |