Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was idolised and soon settled down to life with a British family . |
| 2 | By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body . |
| 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 | Thought we might go down to Grafton for the Old Boys ’ match against the first XI . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 7 | Willie sat down to breakfast in a clean grey shirt and jersey , pressed grey shorts and polished boots . |
| 8 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 9 | I travelled down to Gateshead for the big meeting there , Great Britain versus the Commonwealth , and was witness to one of the most amazing come-backs in British sprinting history made by , who else , that old war-horse Allan Wells . |
| 10 | Today , they will inevitably go 2-0 down to India in the three-match series . |
| 11 | As a result , there is an unbroken strand of social liberal philosophy from Hobhouse , Professor of Sociology at the LSE from 1903 to 1929 , through Ginsberg ( 1929 – 54 ) , down to Marshall in the immediate post-war period . |
| 12 | The dignified way he handled the tragedy of his father being gunned down in Bangkok impressed everyone and , although he went 7–0 down to White in the British Open final , he still had the bottle to capture seven frames before losing 10–7 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 16 | Er when it comes down to application at the local sense then at the local level , I think my colleagues might be able to er give more enlightenment on that . |
| 17 | But , when they get down to business with the British , it is at least certain that they will not be as difficult as Mr Haughey 's government was . |
| 18 | It had to be lifted off the track each night to prevent possible vandalism which could have seen it trundling down to Staveley on the falling grade ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | comes down to earth at a residential road close to Milngavie station . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A few years ago , they went in to Europe with the deliberate aim of sabotaging any tough ban on cigarette advertising , and any insistance on tough medical warnings of the kind that appear today . |
| 26 | They then returned to the Print Room , while guests went in to luncheon in the Great Hall . |
| 27 | It 's now clear , my Lord Mayor , what the Labour Party has transferred has transferred it 's opposition to Right to Buy in to opposition towards the new Rents to Mortgage . |
| 28 | And this is on the bus going in to Clearwater on the free trolley as they call it . |
| 29 | THREE hand grenades were among 476 weapons handed in to police during a month-long weapons amnesty in Greater Manchester . |
| 30 | Large numbers of soldiers and police were brought in to seal off the entire area . |