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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 15 | I s I was still only down to sort of eleven stone , but if I get to like ten stone |
| 16 | There are some strange flights of fancy and there are also some extremely down to earth not to say earthy observations . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cos I could n't be bothered and I was n't dressed and it would be going all over to south London . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , if I were with you , Nancy would have us all over to dinner . ’ |
| 20 | A rock awash outside the reef entrance was 100 metres or so off to port . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's only up to Christmas . |
| 23 | The Dictionary as a whole needs to be kept constantly up to date . |
| 24 | Some of the new investment is financed by parent companies , as is shown by the growing share of investment in subsidiaries , but the resale of less up to date equipment to subcontractors is also a common practice . |
| 25 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 26 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 27 | And red-breasted merganser headed purposefully out to sea — as our four-hour boat trip came to an end . |
| 28 | As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire . |
| 29 | Each of them had the chance to take the controls and fly the glider 8010 — just for a while , before the pilot brought the plane gently back to earth . |
| 30 | Ruth looked doubtfully out to sea , wondering what he meant ; but then she began to see something , more with her mind 's eye than in reality , though she knew at once it was very real . |