Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dramatic new figure , they say , is all down to the magical properties of the Secrets body she 's seen wearing here . |
| 2 | All settings up to about 8 ( out of 10 ) on the master volume elicit a clear , punchy tone , right down to the lower notes on my 5-string , and live it proved well able to compete with two rawk'n'rawl guitar players and a loud drum kit on an R&B pub gig . |
| 3 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 4 | The severe drop down to the lower parts of the garden means it is sensible to provide a physical barrier and this has been cleverly achieved with a seat and barbecue that matches the sweep of the terrace itself . |
| 5 | But anyway , this is a very amusing film , but , but the idea of mission control is the concept of the ego , where it is portrayed in a very amusing way in this film by Woody Allen , that the consciousness , Woody Allen 's consciousness , is portrayed as mission control at Houston erm and er erm it , that particular scene ends with er when er control erm mission control sends a message down to the lower parts of the body , I wo n't mention which , says we 're going around again boys , and they think oh my God they 're very amusing . |
| 6 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 7 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 8 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 9 | Exports to China have slipped down to the 1987 levels after an artificial high in 1988 caused by the coincidence of a number of major orders . |
| 10 | He tucked the transfer document into his tunic , then hurried along the corridors , taking a crowded lift down to the living quarters in the heart of the great multi-stack fortress . |
| 11 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 12 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 13 | Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey . |
| 14 | From here , a turn down to the left leads to High Birkwith and then two miles of uneventful tarmac , heading south to the starting point of the walk at Horton . |
| 15 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 16 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 17 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 18 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 19 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 20 | The industrial revolution and the creation of parks around the country houses have taken us down to the later years of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 22 | That is not standards or objectivity , but giving in to the usual pressures from the National Union of Teachers and NALGO , to which Labour Members always give in . |
| 23 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 24 | I think the things that have come out of this for me er from Councillor actually is that it would be unlikely that we , we or would be allocating that plan today and I think the amount of traffic has increased through the town centre would make it foolish and one does wonder at the wisdom if all the development went along which had to be serviced then through er Street and through the town centre in to the main areas of employment that happened years ago . |
| 25 | It 's a fair cop : female fan gives in to the shamanic rhythms in Houston |
| 26 | In this passage , one may well argue , Paul broke through to the ultimate implications of the Christian message . |
| 27 | The early careers of The Rolling Stones , and others were littered with blues covers and , as a result , originals , like Hooker 's 1956 Vee-Jay version of ‘ Dimples ’ and Tommy Tucker 's ‘ Hi-Heel Sneakers ’ ( but unfortunately not his recording of ‘ Hey Lawdy Mama , Whose Funky Drawers Are These ? ’ ) filtered through to the upper echelons of the British pop charts . |
| 28 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 29 | For , although Clare would never reveal the details of their relationship , and although Mrs Mallory would never tell anyone about their conversation of that afternoon , some hint of his disgrace would inevitably filter through to the other members of the family whom he loved : Mr Mallory , the twins , Patrick , Patricia … |
| 30 | Only the Gittinses and the Hanmers were resident gentry from the second quarter of the sixteenth century through to the early years of the eighteenth century . |