Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm meeting her tomorrow off the boat train , ’ Harry replied , ‘ and we 're going down to Calking together . |
| 2 | This visit , he told Alice as the train took them back to London later that evening , had been a very happy one and it was his intention to go down to Calking to see them all again very soon . |
| 3 | Perhaps he should extend it , for he had not yet taken Alice to the promised lunch at the Ritz , or been up to Leicestershire to see Mrs Appleby , or fulfilled his promise to Jenny to go down to Calking to see the shop and meet Jack and his family . |
| 4 | Frank can then return to Leeds with a World Cup beneah his belt and settle down to getting a place . |
| 5 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 6 | Ultimately it must come down to taking a view of what effect it has had on the standard of living of her people . |
| 7 | Now they were down to living on his salary alone , this was an important factor . |
| 8 | When at last they are released , they are positively maniacal , and gallop and buck around the paddock twice as much as usual before settling down to eating the grass . |
| 9 | They all settled down to eating while Willie , amidst all the chatter and laughter , found himself an object of praise . |
| 10 | In such cases it may come down to allocating liability beween the parents and the occupier . |
| 11 | It 's partly down to trying to do the best you can for your artists . |
| 12 | After tea at 4.00 p.m. — usually apple pie — there was the milking to do again and then we would settle down to patching , mending and darning , and making rug mats . |
| 13 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 14 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 15 | In Victorian and post-Victorian times , a woman of forty might settle down to wearing black and being an old lady . |
| 16 | You have not yet read the whole novel — and you would normally read a text all the way through before you seriously get down to translating it . |
| 17 | Madeleine kept repeating that she 'd get down to hacking back the brambles one of these days but on the other hand she did n't have the time . |
| 18 | erm so erm I do n't know it 's just down to generating some questions . |
| 19 | You can imagine busy hands flying around the cockpit selecting emergency oxygen on , power down , airbrakes out , wait until speed is down to manoeuvring values , add drag if necessary , then push the nose down . |
| 20 | Spotting an ideal target for a send-up , Dennis Spooner wrote his teleplay deliberately as a spoof of Carry On Cleo ( which , in turn , was a spoof on Quo Vadis ) , even down to persuading Verity Lambert and Director Christopher Barry to hire some of the cast of the film , for example Gertan Klauber . |
| 21 | For rich industrial nations , the problem of microelectronics and other new technologies boils down to managing the transition while many workers either change their employment , or join the ranks of the permanently unemployed . |
| 22 | What happens when it comes down to choosing the material you put on your albums ? |
| 23 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 24 | With the trunk 's support I slid down to kneeling , leaning head and left shoulder against the bark . |
| 25 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 26 | She asked a waiter for another pot , and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan 's life . |
| 27 | Find I 'm down to using it twice a week now . |
| 28 | Keen to integrate the building into everyday life , he has made a diagonal route through it to encourage its use as a short-cut , and has redesigned the square outside , down to recreating the original pattern of Roman paving . |
| 29 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 30 | The regulations are supposed to tie him down to sailing no more than three miles out to sea and to stay within 15 miles of the harbour . |