Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 2 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 3 | But she made a point of going down to the jetty one day to tell him , ‘ I 'm really glad you found your boat . ’ |
| 4 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 5 | But the orchestra is playing a medley from Fiddler on the Roof , the audience is clapping impatiently in time and , horror or horrors , I can see now there are no stairs — just a long slide circling down to the stage 60 feet away . |
| 6 | He cites the Chinese gesture of bowing down to the ground nine times before an emperor . |
| 7 | They come in here for one orange juice and they 're up and down to the loos five times in one night with different blokes . ’ |
| 8 | I went down to the caravan one day to take some apples , and was startled to see a continuous ripple of ice on the inside of the caravan wall just by my friend 's plump , inviting-looking pillow . |
| 9 | Why do n't you pop along to the hospital one night and pay Len a visit ? |
| 10 | When I went over to the lake one day I spotted a seagull in distress . |
| 11 | Ellie pleaded , as Madame marched her off to the coiffeuse two floors up . |
| 12 | I remember driving up to the Hall one evening about three weeks before he died . |
| 13 | When I was in the same area again last week ( w/c July 5 '91 ) I went up to the shelters one evening and cleaned out all the rubbish prior to spending the night there . |
| 14 | The Electricity Privatisation Bill states that working up to the year 2000 supply companies must buy between 15 and 20 per cent of their energy from non-fossil fuel resources . |
| 15 | But by all accounts she 's phoned up to the house four times . |
| 16 | An identical red position indicator points at flap settings coloured up to the 45 ° setting in white , thereafter up to the maximum 60 ° in red . |
| 17 | So , the perfectionist might be instructed to do something wrong at work , or deliberately blemish their appearance , or turn up to the group five minutes late . |
| 18 | In their statement the ministers also pointed to the importance of a forthcoming meeting of TCA presidents in the run up to the June 1992 UN Conference on the Environment and Development in Brazil . |
| 19 | At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away . |
| 20 | But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’ |
| 21 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 22 | A second infusion port was cemented on to the assembly 10 cm above the aspiration holes of the size 8 nasogastric tube , and for in vivo validation studies a third infusion port was cemented on to the assembly at the same point to allow introduction of known amounts of socium bicarbonate into the upper oesophagus . |
| 23 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 24 | The inspiration began when he stepped on to the tee five minutes early , just taking it all in . |
| 25 | ‘ Chap came round to the Palladium one night , said we could be in it if we liked , only there was no money , just publicity . |
| 26 | He even invited us round to the house one night , to give me a loan of a book on the Gothic Imagination . |