Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 2 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 3 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 4 | Up-stream , it sloped down to a grassy path between the trees and the water . |
| 5 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 6 | One day they 'll make a big killing , quit the rackets and settle down to a respectable life in a new town . |
| 7 | William 's life — like that of nearly everyone else in Santa Fe — appears to be both blameless and obscure , and is occupied principally with the farming of bananas and taro plants on the shallow hillsides that slope down to a sluggish tributary of the Rio Sabanas . |
| 8 | The company , which last year sold 45 farms , puts the rise in interest down to a new confidence in farming caused by European Community reform , a drop in interest rates and good prices for beef . |
| 9 | It would be too easy to put everything down to a typical case of hysteria , but what if there was something else , some underlying cause ? |
| 10 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 11 | Pale and shaking , they sat down to a muted conversation about where the day 's campaign would be fought . |
| 12 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 13 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 14 | Yet it was down to a collective lack of desire , which was the problem against Watford . ’ |
| 15 | The problem of interpretation is compounded in considering MPs occupation and interests ; it was not unusual for a young man from a landed family to be called to the Bar ( but not to practice ) , to serve in the armed forces ( but not to become a professional soldier ) , and then to settle down to a political career with several directorships . |
| 16 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 17 | for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 18 | Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap . |
| 19 | Anne had already trimmed down to a reasonable weight with the help of Weight Watchers , and she pleaded for new ideas to strengthen her resolve . |
| 20 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 21 | In fact , as we have seen , it boils down to a moral evaluation of differentiation ( rather than a ‘ scientific ’ finding ) : the differences that distinguish criminals are things that are deemed to have ‘ gone wrong ’ with their biology , psyche or values . |
| 22 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 23 | Still under heavy fire from artillery and mortars , and themselves down to a small amount of ammunition , the remnants of the 1 st Bucks stood fast until dark . |
| 24 | ' On each side of this extensive structure there is a street running down to a wider street at the back , which is 40 feet in width , including the footpaths . |
| 25 | He would settle down to a contented programme of long walks , daily spells of observation in the Britches , and some leisurely reflection on work projects for his pupils next year . |
| 26 | Heartwatch co-ordinator Andrew Smart puts the project 's success down to a general increase in awareness of personal health issues . |
| 27 | The light now dies down to a mere flicker of ‘ fire ’ , appropriate enough considering the onslaught of death imagery with ‘ death-bed ’ , ‘ ashes ’ , ‘ expire ’ and perhaps , again , ‘ consumed ’ . |
| 28 | It boils down to a sharp retraction in the Plains economy . |
| 29 | He wants to move down to a smaller house in Weybridge . |
| 30 | The concrete spillway below the Loch Add reservoir comes down to a stepped slope above the confluence of several small burns draining nearby slopes . |