Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus took the coast road , around the tall grey Ox Mountains , beside dark sea cliffs with grassy rounded undulating contours , dropping down to Sligo Bay . |
| 2 | In spite of all the times he had been there Adam missed the turn-off that was the drift leading down to Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | Before he could fit in a visit , he was forestalled by Len Brayton , Maisie 's father , who rode down to Aumery Park Farm one Wednesday in mid-January , after attending the market at Kirkbymoorside . |
| 4 | Also , he had Amy 's body sent down to Worcester College , Oxford , where it was interned with costly pageantry and ostentation . |
| 5 | Jamie walks me down to Brockley Cross , inhaling fresh air through his nostrils like Islanders sniff cocaine . |
| 6 | She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) . |
| 7 | The urgency to complete it was put down to US pressure to achieve a result in time for the opening of the Republican Party convention on Aug. 17 , apparently in an attempt to boost the troubled election campaign of President George Bush by convincing the US electorate that his skills in the foreign policy field had domestic benefits . |
| 8 | The easiest way of solving that problem was to go down to Victoria station . |
| 9 | In the end , I trudged down to Victoria railway station and sheltered there . |
| 10 | It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there . |
| 11 | He had a pleasure boat for about ten years before he died , used to run fucking tourists down to Hampton Court , that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 12 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 13 | Down to Berwick town , where he will serve meantime as governor . ’ |
| 14 | I said , in fact , when she 's got herself sorted out we 'll go down to Poole Art Centre and see |
| 15 | The sharpness of the contrast had not struck Breeze before , but as she walked down to Overclyst village she pondered over it . |
| 16 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 17 | It was , however , knocked down to Florida collector Jeffrey Horovitz for $310,000 ( £194,000 ) . |
| 18 | Somehow or other he was trapped , knocked on the head or drugged , and his body taken down to London Bridge . |
| 19 | They stopped for Athelstan to leave messages with Tab the tinker , now drinking away the profits of Meg 's funeral at the nearest tavern , and began the slow journey down to London Bridge and across to Cheapside . |
| 20 | They crossed the beaten track , dodging between the heavy-wheeled carts , and led their horses down to London Bridge and into the welcoming warmth of the Piebald Horse tavern . |
| 21 | ‘ The chief agent was awoken at six in the morning ; he had to ask John Wakeham , you know how good John is at this sort of thing , to quit his room at Topps Hotel ( he wo n't stay in the Grand for all the tea in China and who shall blame him ? ) and pop down to Kemp Town and arrange bail . |
| 22 | You carry on down to Putney Bridge , get this lot unloaded . |
| 23 | The porter threw one venomous look at Ranulf , slammed the jack of ale down on the bench , grumblingly unlocked the postern door and led them out on to the white , dusty forest track which snaked between the trees down to Godstowe village . |
| 24 | The M1 was closed from junction 4 down to Staples Corner until the Cup Final began . |
| 25 | If you went down to Pitville Park in Cheltenham today , this was where it was all happening … thousands of children taking part in Playday 92 . |
| 26 | ‘ I wandered down to Huddersfield market and found some woollen scarves for £1 each . |
| 27 | Then Great-Grandad would drive the lot down to Barnard Castle to get the best price he could in the market place . |
| 28 | I have seen poultry and rabbits and large baskets of butter and eggs sharing seats down to Barnard Castle . |
| 29 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 30 | It 's all down to Sandtoft experience and expertise . |