Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Taking me little one down to the country to see her Nan , ’ she heard Gloria say , then the click-clack of the ticket-clipper before the man closed the door and they were alone again . |
| 2 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 3 | She never fussed when he said that he was going down to the country and did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 4 | He 's off on one of his jaunts with Sexy Lexy , and then they 're going straight down to the country for the weekend . |
| 5 | He opened the window after they turned in to the country . |
| 6 | Does n't that sort of bring in to the country and she 's out in the country and she wants to show it to them that she she 's sort of she 's still fashionable . |
| 7 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 8 | AFTER nearly ten years work a £400m Indian power station , built by NEI Power Projects of Newcastle , will be handed over to the country 's power authorities tomorrow . |
| 9 | Went to the Country Dancing Club , used to go all over to the Country Dances |
| 10 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 11 | At weekends they would go off to the country . |
| 12 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 13 | I was nearly run over in New Palace Yard after the vote by the surge of Jaguars roaring out of the carpark and off to the country for the weekend . |
| 14 | What she did n't bargain on was you whisking her off to the country and locking all the doors . |
| 15 | It 's now up to the country of origin to vouch for the health of the animals . |
| 16 | It 's irritating to see her there , all nervy and squeaky , in her clothes for motoring out to the country in ; but oddly touching and pleasing that she should have come . |
| 17 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 18 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 19 | The Tories have perhaps three years before back-bench revolts and by-election defeats force them back to the country . |
| 20 | I went back to the country earlier this year on a human-rights delegation , with no political affiliations . |
| 21 | When the men of Market Harborough died they were carried back to Great Bowden for burial , back to the country village on whose fields their town had sprung up . |
| 22 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 23 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 24 | Among the bidders was a landlady fighting to hold on to the country inn she 's run for the past eight years.Richard Barnett reports : |