Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 With this ghastly thought in mind , he gently suggested to Sheila that they walk over to a nice patch of grass at the base of the earth bank .
2 Informative , revealing , funny , they add up to a comprehensive picture of a momentous year .
3 Where fantasy is involved , as in a film like The Wizard of Oz ( 1940 ) , non-realistic , simple colours are acceptable , provided they add up to a coherent scheme that works within the special world of that film .
4 Gayle , sent off during Birmingham 's Anglo-Italian Cup clash with Lucchese on Wednesday , has called on the players to toughen up as they face up to a New Year relegation battle .
5 At the end they look forward to a married life together in a world diminished by the events of the play .
6 And , I 've just as a basic figure , I mean , they give up to a certain figure o before their hours you put a bit of tax and after that , but er we 've allocated him to work , in the afternoons when I 'm out , they allocate to her , the warehouse , because I ca n't afford any , er , as I say , they repairs a machine , it goes out faulty , and the onus is on me and the company
7 ( b ) Hybrid Bills Where a Public Bill ( dealt with below ) contains provisions which savour of a Private Bill in that they refer specifically to a particular person or locality , the House may , if it so wishes , before second reading refer the Bill to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills .
8 The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group .
9 They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows .
10 They come home to a nice bathed kid and they do n't know how much shit you 've wiped up during the day …
11 Eventually they settle in to a new home — but life ca n't be that easy , can it ?
12 Members of one free-swimming group lack a gut altogether and look very like the tiny free-swimming coral organisms before they settle down to a sedentary life .
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