Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the town " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job . |
| 2 | The deep and steady Belmont stretch at Hereford gave good sport with dace from the pumphouse down to the town bridge . |
| 3 | ‘ Will you go down to the town , to the nearest phone box and get on to the station ? |
| 4 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
| 5 | We know where he goes — down to the town about a mile away in search of a bitch . |
| 6 | I walked down to the town centre , which reminded me of an English country town , with shops of every kind . |
| 7 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 8 | Sir Alexander Seton was not in the least upset about being transferred down to the town . |
| 9 | In a gap in the trees I can now look down over a green vegetable pointillism of tree-tops , falling away down to the town . |
| 10 | At half-past eleven he went down to the town with Tony to collect the papers . |
| 11 | Julia stayed the rest of the day in bed , got up and bathed at six , dressed carefully in a green shirt and black jeans , and then walked slowly down to the town . |
| 12 | Behind him , along the road leading down to the town , he could see lights start to glow as home fires were kindled against the cold night . |
| 13 | When his legs were more comfortable , he decided that he would go down to the town . |
| 14 | After the official ceremony the party moved down to the Town Hall , and incidentally how appropriate that the Railway and the Railway Society that have always been so intimately involved with the town should hold its celebration at Bishop 's Castle 's ancient Town Hall with the mayor , district council chairman in attendance . |
| 15 | ‘ I wondered if you would drive me down to the town in the van . ’ |
| 16 | And then I thought , oh I 've got ta go down to the town have n't I ? |
| 17 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 18 | Could you just drop a note in to the Town Clerk as to where that is ? |
| 19 | Most people arrive on the island on the north side and from here it 's best to travel east and walk from the port of Ryde over to the town of Seaview and down to Sandown . |
| 20 | I detest Picasso who , instead of handing ‘ Guernica ’ over to the town whose name it usurped , left his battered and decrepit work to the Reina Sofía hospital after its reanimation in the Prado clinic . |
| 21 | When challenged by the head gardener the Americans pretended to be a press gang , which was sufficient to set ‘ all the stout young fellows ’ on the estate running off to the town for safety , but he also informed them that their intended victim was taking the waters at Buxton , and Jones set off back to his boat , until the two officers with him pointed out that , having left Whitehaven empty-handed , the crew should at least be allowed to loot the house . |
| 22 | My application form went off to the town hall first class , posted in Darlington on the morning of Friday March 20 . |
| 23 | From Coneysthorpe the Way continues south to Kirkham Priory and then north-east to Low Hutton , following the River Derwent up to the town of Malton . |
| 24 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 25 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |
| 26 | Passing an oil rig and numerous naval vessels , we moored alongside a jetty on the estuary leading up to the town . |
| 27 | Going back to the agents up in the town , the boatmen to get information about a ship coming in they would have to go up to the town |
| 28 | They would have to go up to the town , yes |
| 29 | So was there very often a race up to the town to get there first ? |
| 30 | Your father did not work — he went out to the town every night with his friends , and drank . |