Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , when I would have preferred to stay and stare at Agnes , he took me down to King 's Wharf near the Vintry and into a small ale house which stank of carp and salt . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to know what you told the copper , what he told you , why you sent Sal down to Cawthorne 's place at the weekend , what you 're going to do about her now , what you intend doing about Alec Reynolds now that he 's dead and why you 're trying to give me the bum 's rush . |
| 3 | And were taken by the Primrose ( a small steam tender which conveyed the dockers down to Butterman 's Bay to partially unload ships too large to enter the dock fully laden ) to the ship . |
| 4 | But he used to go down to Pearson 's house in Beckenham , Kent and spend time with his children , Simon and Patrick . |
| 5 | So get those hipster strides on , polish your Chelsea boots , dust off that old black polo-neck , comb the fringe and get down to Brandoni 's place in Wembley ( call them first , though , please ) . |
| 6 | So we decided to row the boat down to Clara 's house on Wednesday , collect Magwitch , and continue right down the river to Essex , where we could stop one of the foreign ships sailing from the port of London to Germany or Holland . |
| 7 | Shall I just send him along to Rosie 's pharmacy for some diarrhoea mixture ? ’ |
| 8 | And genetic engineers seeking to develop new characteristics in farm animals have tapped in to Buckhaven 's expertise for intermediates used in the synthesis of proteins . |
| 9 | Annunziata looked in to Julia 's room at fairly frequent intervals to turn her pillows or sponge her hot face , but would not let her try to talk . |
| 10 | Still like a whale , now a silken one , he returned to the small office and put the call through to Galland 's unit in the Netherlands . |
| 11 | It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham . |
| 12 | You must take her over to Rico 's place in Portugal . ’ |
| 13 | I used to ride both horses in the early days to take them to be shod over to Lowson 's Smithy at Romaldkirk . |
| 14 | He shared in the firm 's success up to Harland 's death in 1895 , playing his part in the extension of the yard , particularly the construction of the engine works in 1879–80 . |
| 15 | This machines lives up to Dan 's reputation for solid boxes , good specifications and keen prices . |
| 16 | The first task , to put the ladder up to Catherine 's office on the 4th floor . |
| 17 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 18 | Instead of being lured up to Whit 's room with you and erm other people |
| 19 | Everyone , that is , except 20-year-old Darcey Bussell , who , as the rich fleshpot 's daughter Ganzatti , stands up to Asylnuratova 's presence with a staggering authority . |
| 20 | The scheme was not greatly used and was complemented by a Voluntary Advice Scheme under which solicitors would give up to half-hour 's advice for a fiat fee of £1 paid by the client irrespective of means . |
| 21 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 22 | I gritted my teeth and hung on for the climb up to Ana 's Cross on the peak of Spaunton Moor . |
| 23 | The Roman conquest of Britain started in earnest in the year AD 43 and by about AD 120 , the whole of Britain up to Hadrian 's wall in the north became a Roman province . |
| 24 | Drove up to FM 's Lodge at about 6.30 pm , had a bath there and changed my clothes . |
| 25 | But that did n't measure up to Andy 's sense of showmanship ; it was n't glitzy enough , dramatic enough , or even big enough . |
| 26 | Towards midday they drove out to Dobson 's house on Pacific Drive . |
| 27 | But a philosophical tradition stretching back to Aristotle 's exploration of the relationship between ‘ first substance ’ and ‘ second substance ’ in The Categories has seen that there are other ways of exploring the issue . |
| 28 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 29 | They relate back to Allport 's concept of ‘ becoming ’ which , by its very definition , is never-ending . |
| 30 | Shostakovich may provide the melodic/harmonic starting point for the Second Symphony , although the fugally overlapping textures of the opening clearly hark back to Bartók 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celeste . |