Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 2 | Terry and Middleton have become one of the country 's most reliable opening partnerships , so it was something of a surprise when , in the 19th over , Middleton was leg-before to Hooper for 27 with 68 on the board . |
| 3 | It was now 6.22am , and their ETA at Koepang was 7.15am , so Wood decided that altering course any further was not worthwhile , as they were near enough to Timor for it not to make much difference . |
| 4 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 5 | At the end of April , however , it was near enough to completion for Nietzsche , at last , to send the first part of the manuscript to a publisher , Engelmann , in Leipzig . |
| 6 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 7 | During Prince Sihanouk 's rule , he and the Phnom Penh aristocracy would drive down to Kep for weekend parties and gambling in the casino . |
| 8 | Go down to Gateways for me . |
| 9 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 10 | I mean , I could go from anywhere , Lowerick down to the borders and I 'd I 'd be , I 'd feel at home , but I would n't feel I mean , I went down to England for something like four days , and like from Berwick , ma , about it must be about ten miles from Berwick to the Scottish , the Scotland thing and I was a craning my head out the bus window to see it ! |
| 11 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 12 | Trained by Peter Monteith at Rosewell , just outside Edinburgh , the nine-year-old has been waiting the good ground he will encounter today and , in the words of his trainer , with prizes going down to £4,000 for fourth place and £600 for sixth , ‘ it would be mad not to run him ’ . |
| 13 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 14 | This is fully tax relievable in the employer 's hands so the liability nets down to £3,393 for the employer . |
| 15 | Catch a bus from the Lamb Inn down to Seaside for the shopping precincts . |
| 16 | I 'm coming down to leeds for the Man City match in about 3 weeks time . |
| 17 | We 're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day . |
| 18 | And Simon was invited to go down to London for a chat . |
| 19 | We could only er er , in it 's not quite clear whether erm we 're in favour of sending people all the way down to London for their health care , but we 're not in favour of sending anywhere , anywhe where more local for the the erm , you know I , I 'm not quite sure what you want you know what what point the lady 's trying to get across there . |
| 20 | Hazel did not come down to London for the weekend . |
| 21 | ‘ And the times for you getting down to London for the attack on Oliver , if you include the times you — or whoever — were seen in the toilets at Tottenham Court Road , are looking very tight ; there was a delay on all the flights from Edinburgh into Heathrow that day … makes it impossible , really . ’ |
| 22 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 23 | I was merely taking her down to London for a day . |
| 24 | I mean , God , you know if I 've got ta go down to London for three days I 'd rather do that cos it 's gon na earn me two or three grand . |
| 25 | Thought we might go down to Grafton for the Old Boys ’ match against the first XI . |
| 26 | Wool from the Devonshire serge makers was sent down to Cornwall for spinning ; Norwich wove yarn spun in Cambridgeshire , Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire . |
| 27 | Tickets for the Opens are £10 , with entry £30 for the big-money Classic , which promises £1,500 to the winner down to £100 for seventh , and 16 £50 section prizes . |
| 28 | but it 's , I , I do n't want to go down to work for hours Chris . |
| 29 | Aubrey says Lady Debrace is taking her down to Brighton for some sea air , but I do n't suppose they 'll go for long . |
| 30 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |