Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
2 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
3 | All over Austria , children are included in adult activities to a much greater extent than in Britain , but in the Alpine province of Vorarlberg they 've got it down to a fine art . |
4 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
5 | He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ . |
6 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
7 | They 've taken him off to a dry house . |
8 | She 'd just taken it round to a local dealer to get his opinion confirmed . |
9 | Before its publication Goodwin had sent her off to the British Museum to research the old Black Dwarf . |