Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
| 4 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 5 | In her present sensitive frame of mind she did n't feel up to looking like the poor relation beside him , but then , she had no intention of going anywhere near him . |
| 6 | A bigger problem that converting between video standards is that fact that most older monitors are simply not up to working with the high resolutions that the PC needs . |
| 7 | The only other observation is that the screen brilliance is n't up to battling with a bright sunlit office , or overhead fluorescent lights , but that could apply to the majority of today 's notebook computers . |
| 8 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 9 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 10 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 11 | Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax . |