Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 2 | She was idolised and soon settled down to life with a British family . |
| 3 | We shouted ourselves first-class to Leeds , drank in the lounge of one of better hotels until match time , and strolled down to Headingley in a biting wind , Eastern Australian writers and film makers . |
| 4 | Thursday dawned as dully as the day before and Fabia got out of bed and went through the routine of getting showered and dressed and going down to breakfast with a total lack of enthusiasm or appetite . |
| 5 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 6 | Willie sat down to breakfast in a clean grey shirt and jersey , pressed grey shorts and polished boots . |
| 7 | It turned out that he had locked himself out of his room which was likely to be embarrassing as I , for one , was not about to go down to reception for a key for him . |
| 8 | All at the end you do is losing your voice and , and if you do n't get your way , then you it up louder and louder and louder and if you do n't get your way you may have to back down then and the aggressive person backing down to sort of a submissive does n't always hold very much credibility . |
| 9 | He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium . |
| 10 | Having survived ten days in the Caribbean unbeaten and relatively unscathed , in St Kitts we came down to earth with a large thump and were soundly thrashed by the island 's powerful side , which contained several hard hitting batsmen . |
| 11 | The young New Zealander came down to earth with a bruising bump in the World Cup and still has much to learn , but he remains potentially an all-rounder of world class . |
| 12 | The Volvo left the ground for precious seconds , flying through the air before finally crashing back down to earth with a sickening jolt that jarred every bone in her body . |
| 13 | comes down to earth at a residential road close to Milngavie station . |
| 14 | Kevin Darley , heading for a record score this season after doubling his tally in the past 17 days , was brought down to earth in an ugly fall at Pontefract . |
| 15 | This evening after dinner you might wish to take the train ( 20 minutes ) in to Amsterdam for an exhilarating evening in what is undoubtedly Europe 's most surprising city . |
| 16 | THREE hand grenades were among 476 weapons handed in to police during a month-long weapons amnesty in Greater Manchester . |
| 17 | From the moment it was obvious that the Schlieffen Plan had failed and that Imperial Germany was not to sweep through to Paris in a brief , punitive , conflict , the Great War became one of grinding attrition . |
| 18 | Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody . |
| 19 | It 's like asking Gadhafi over to Washington for a cosy chat . ’ |
| 20 | A BRISTOL City ball-boy was handed over to police during a bad-tempered second half at Ashton Gate . |
| 21 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |
| 22 | The best programs allow the teacher to gain basic skills in using them and to hand them over to pupils after a short introduction . |
| 23 | DARLINGTON Sixth Form student Paul Walker is off to Japan for a two week all-expenses paid trip . |
| 24 | A sing-song round the fire perchance , a few spooky tales to swop , and then a friendly round of goodnights before slipping off to dreamland on a clean and functional bunk . |
| 25 | while Hereford are off to Torquay with a full strength squad … |
| 26 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
| 27 | By 1673 , he thought that too many of his supporters were being exposed to danger by his presence so he went off to Ireland for a cooling-down period . |
| 28 | They might receive only one or two small gifts , or even none , or — worst of all — could find themselves carried off to Spain for a whole year ! |
| 29 | At which moment , the Editor , a young man from Glasgow , who seemed to bear on his narrow shoulders guilt for all the sins of the Western world , emerged from his office and was off to lunch with a left-wing Labour M.P . |
| 30 | It seems they are then off to Birmingham for a Dire Straits concert . |