Example sentences of "[adv prt] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning |
| 2 | The teacher had finally got her class settled down to some work . |
| 3 | There was nothing for him to do except settle down to some work . |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 5 | Then you can get down to some work and start paying off your debt . ’ |
| 6 | I must get down to some work . ’ |
| 7 | I feel I have let Sir Charles Irving down to some degree , ’ he added . |
| 8 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 9 | The husband and wife retire from their work and immediately move down to some retirement haven in deepest Cornwall . |
| 10 | It also it is a fact that the people that you do tend to lend the equipment out to take it for granted that you are also a highly qualified video sort of technician and if anything goes wrong , they ring you up and say ‘ What plug goes where , and why is n't this working ’ and why should you if you 're working run down to some conference in the John Hall Room and try and sort out something for these people . |
| 11 | They broke down to some extent , particularly in Bohemia , the former administrative separatism of the provinces , and provided the monarchy with an income far greater and an army far stronger than it had ever possessed before . |
| 12 | Two elderly men were crouched over a naked girl who was strapped face down to some form of wooden rack . |
| 13 | When connected via the phono jacks , the signal level of these can be mixed in for playing along to some backing . |
| 14 | She 's goes along to some illustration out of book and er |
| 15 | This chapter is an attempt to sort these various pro- and anti-classical elements in to some kind of order . |
| 16 | He clued me in to some strategy . |
| 17 | Chesarynth hoped all the secretaries were happily jacked in to some routine part of the system , or getting their jollies from the nerve-stimulators some of them were addicted to . |
| 18 | He do n't have no tower himself , but Khor said he had like some socket on his finger , just plugs it in to some surgery-box and the machine fixes you up real good . |
| 19 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |
| 20 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 21 | So , expecting to be whisked off to some faraway hot spot for a mild spell of brainwashing , we duly prepared to bring you next week 's Unigram from under the shade of a palm tree on a secluded sandy beach — or at least somewhere nicer than four storeys above the Charing Cross Road in rainy central London . |
| 22 | He 'd wanted to send her off to some relative in the country , but she did n't seem to have any family . |
| 23 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing 's lost , ’ he says and bang goes another drawing for 2d. or nothing , while he dreams off to some café to borrow some paper . |
| 25 | The pressure will be off to some extent and we can concentrate on winning . |
| 26 | Extreme bass did roll off to some extent and I found that stereo location of low-frequency sources was less pin-point than from properly disposed loudspeakers . |
| 27 | Although Moscow undertook a trade push in Latin America in the late 1960s ( offering credits of $100 million to Brazil in 1966 , $57 million to Chile in 1967 , $2 million to Colombia and $20 million to Uruguay in 1968 ) and saw its efforts pay off to some extent with a steady increase in turnover between the two regions during the 1970s , the true extent of the Soviet economic presence in Latin America is by no means as great as many observers claim ( see appendix for detailed figures on Soviet trade with Latin America ) . |
| 28 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 29 | They looked both sly and exhilarated , as though they were off to some party that would end in tears . |
| 30 | Also he s been involved in the England set up to some degree for a number of years , and was an official ‘ spy ’ or scout for England during the last 2 world cups ( time on his hands this time around ! ) . |