Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm meeting her tomorrow off the boat train , ’ Harry replied , ‘ and we 're going down to Calking together . |
| 2 | Madeleine kept repeating that she 'd get down to hacking back the brambles one of these days but on the other hand she did n't have the time . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 4 | She asked a waiter for another pot , and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan 's life . |
| 5 | GOLDEN couple Bill and Freda Jefferson celebrate 50 years of marriage today and put their happiness down to working together . |
| 6 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 7 | I put it down to giving up work . ’ |
| 8 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 9 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 10 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 11 | Considerable opposition in to setting up Trusts . |
| 12 | How much of the discussion was given over to reporting back on the perceptions of others including children ? |
| 13 | Another British merchant bank , Kleinwort Benson , owned up to writing off loans totalling $23m which it had sunk into an American partnership controlled by one of its directors . |
| 14 | The new timetables will relate to the overall periods up to setting down for trial . |
| 15 | Now a podgy , desperately unfit bar-fly , he simply was n't up to taking on the Man of Action role that he craved . |
| 16 | I 'm hardly up to whipping out gourmet meals ! |
| 17 | It provides services to industry from the Mrs Mop level up to hiring out telescopic lifting gear to TV companies . |
| 18 | We went to make coffee , the wretched little kitchen , and I thought , anyhow I could n't face up to living here with him just the domestic effort . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a young wine , not really up to drinking yet . |
| 20 | What would have been so difficult about saying , ‘ No , darling , we 'll all wait here until you feel up to going on ’ , or ‘ Let the others go and we 'll wait here , holding each other tight in the snow ’ . |
| 21 | She really was , and I sort of thought , Oh , I ca n't go , I ca n't face up to going there . |
| 22 | ‘ They benefit from me being here , but they appreciate that I go out to work occasionally , so it wo n't come as such a shock to them when I start to build up to going back to work properly ’ . |
| 23 | As a divorced mother-of-two and approaching 40 , Jacqueline James had to face up to going back to work . |
| 24 | Nor did I realize how difficult it would be to face up to going back . |
| 25 | If the driver had seen that I was hurt , he would have stopped , and I was not up to explaining why I could not accept a lift . |
| 26 | Here , at least , the level of knowledge should be up to answering more detailed questions . |
| 27 | Old Ramsbum 's not up to keeping out gangs of terrorists . ’ |
| 28 | If she really had n't felt up to coming out she would surely have said ? |
| 29 | The clubhead is changing from going up to coming down and the resultant force is so great that the wrists break more fully … if you 're relaxed . |
| 30 | And if he wants to dabble in those really contentious issues then he 's got to say what he really thinks , because I 've had it up to f—ing here . ’ |