Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 2 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 3 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 4 | The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple . |
| 5 | He moved over to a group of boatmen sitting beneath a large gilt mirror . |
| 6 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 7 | SOME years ago , the poets Hugh MacDiarmid and Basil Bunting dropped in to a bar in Moffat , Dumfriesshire . |
| 8 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 9 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 10 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 11 | This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices . |
| 12 | The Doctor darted over to a pile of broken rocks . |
| 13 | While Liz was nibbling pistachio nuts , surveying dominions , Shirley , hot , red and angry ( but not appearing to be angry ) was listening yet once more to her mother-in-law 's description of her digestive system and what the doctor had said about the swelling of her legs , a commentary which followed closely upon her complaints about the absence of her two older grandchildren who had ( in Shirley 's view very wisely ) buggered off to a disco at Maid Marian 's Nitespot . |
| 14 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 15 | But he came back to a letter from dole chiefs telling him he would not get his income support cash for the 2 1/2 weeks he was away . |
| 16 | At the dinner the topic of conversation came round to a discussion of how historically interesting it would have been if people living in Saxon or medieval England had produced scale models of houses built in those days . |
| 17 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
| 18 | Oxford United got off to a flyer at Notts County thanks to a goal after only eight minutes from Nick Cusack … |
| 19 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 20 | A soft-faced old man was framed by the double doors that opened on to a room of unparalleled luxury . |
| 21 | Cornelius lowered his suitcase , took off his rucksack and climbed on to a stool before the counter . |
| 22 | The three , all male teenage domestic workers , climbed on to a roof of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Friday , a day after she was admitted . |
| 23 | In addition , ‘ bounty money ’ was paid from a fund created by Michelins , the tyre manufacturers ; Guynemer , the French ‘ as des as ’ , earned before he died the huge sum of approximately 15,000 francs ( which he handed over to a foundation for wounded airmen ) . |
| 24 | THREE TRACKS selected from their outstanding debut LP and handed over to a bunch of no good acid housers for dancefloor enhancement . |
| 25 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
| 26 | Ruth asked as they strolled through the formal gardens towards a flight of stone steps that led up to a forest of dense green pine trees offering shade and coolness . |
| 27 | The heat also produced up to a kilogram of lethal dioxin , some of which still contaminates the surrounding area . |
| 28 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 29 | Every time his plane touched down at Nice airport and he saw palm trees and tanned porters in white , short-sleeved shirts , Adam enjoyed afresh the glamour of a life where one stepped on to a plane in bleak winter weather and shortly afterwards stepped off in warm sunshine . |
| 30 | The Lincolnshire ones lost all their sons in the first World War , except one invalid one , and became rather impoverished , and the Norfolk Baileys hung on to a lot of the money . |