Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child struggled gamely on to page two but Seemed to suspect that , after a page turn of this quality , anything else was liable to be an anti-climax . |
| 2 | The sun , incandescent orange , dropped slowly on to pier 56 and made the buttes of mid-town Manhattan shine like fool 's gold . |
| 3 | Performance indicators quickly became used as a diagnostic tool to " inform " the accountability reviews which in turn developed " from departmental monitoring of broad strategies to deep monitoring of short-term operational plans and of control systems stretching right down to unit level " ( Harrison et al. |
| 4 | They would n't , the miners hardly got anything and there used to be soup kitchens for us and er when it first started in nineteen twenty six and er I was pregnant with my second one and I used to walk right down to Pit with a lace , great big lace basket , they would n't let the men fetch the coal and we had to push the coal from there right to the , oh they 've no idea love , no idea . |
| 5 | They get right down to business . |
| 6 | Church had followed his Albatros right down to ground level . |
| 7 | It needs to make access top information simple , right down to desktop level . |
| 8 | Skinhead tastes are ‘ right down to earth ’ . |
| 9 | Then a few drops of water fell on the side and fell right down to earth . |
| 10 | And I reckon they 'll carry on down to Christmas . |
| 11 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 12 | Aware that the dress had a fey , other-worldish air that was light-years away from her own rather down to earth personality , Laura gave a nervous shrug of her shoulders . |
| 13 | The oxidation of carbohydrates requires the presence of an electron transport system which in most nematodes can operate aerobically down to oxygen tensions of 5.0 mm Hg or less . |
| 14 | We climbed in on to plank benches , and in a moment we were off . |
| 15 | Do not make the mistake of putting the two sets of shoulder stitches back to working position and running the whole lot together on to waste yarn as this can be a nuisance when you need to unravel parts of the waste yarn while you join the shoulders together . |
| 16 | The chats sound untutored and Cockney , but there 's depth here : ‘ Ununited Kingdom ’ puts down on to vinyl some of the chaos of London life , the violent , wasteful mess of street trouble — not that you can hear it too clearly . |
| 17 | just after the third stile , path goes over footbridge and drops down on to shore , where turn left . |
| 18 | For lid sitting down on to container , the single excursion in the container relationship must be opposite to that for the lid and one of the possible five in the other relationship . |
| 19 | SHe lay back , pulling Tammuz' head down on to hir breast , where he closed his eyes in a relief that was , strangely , both enervating and exhilarating . |
| 20 | Right down on to Street now . |
| 21 | And , even as I hurled the word down on to paper in my headlong rush , I could n't help correcting his solecism . |
| 22 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 23 | I s I was still only down to sort of eleven stone , but if I get to like ten stone |
| 24 | Then you could get a , a piece of wood very , very rough , understand me and then cast and then you could get the cast in down to exaction , you follow what I mean and then er you could what you want . |
| 25 | There are some strange flights of fancy and there are also some extremely down to earth not to say earthy observations . |
| 26 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 27 | Cos I could n't be bothered and I was n't dressed and it would be going all over to south London . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , if I were with you , Nancy would have us all over to dinner . ’ |
| 29 | A rock awash outside the reef entrance was 100 metres or so off to port . ’ |
| 30 | Community midwives used to have to visit every mum , as a minimum , twice a day up to postnatal day three , and then daily up to day ten . |