Example sentences of "[adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season . |
| 2 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
| 3 | The exhibition is the work of Charlotte Gere , who has written its exhaustive catalogue , investigating the rooms ' contents down to their present whereabouts and the attribution of paintings . |
| 4 | Price differentials within the European Community have driven our visible earnings down to their lowest figure since 1987 . |
| 5 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 6 | ‘ We think much of England 's success is down to their strong front-row so , yes , we were pleased that Probyn was n't playing . |
| 7 | DEREK Cook watched Coleraine go down to their fifth consecutive defeat — and prayed for a reprieve from manager Billy Sinclair . |
| 8 | In both circumstances the deaf minority have to struggle to participate in community life if their contributions do not sound like English and if their failure to understand the interlanguage interpretation is put down to their poor general knowledge or low mental ability . |
| 9 | They were ordinary chaps who deliberately sold themselves short right down to their weedy name , an idea that still attaches itself to anything on the label . |
| 10 | The walls the Romans built remained the basic structure of the city walls down to their final destruction in the late eighteenth century , save at two significant corners . |
| 11 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 12 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 13 | No wonder they were upset , relying on Flaxperson for their next social security Giro when down to their last lentil . |
| 14 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 15 | Athelstan dallied with the thought of tying each of the people in this house down to their exact movements during the night Sir Thomas died , as well as the following one when Vechey disappeared , but realised the futility of it . |
| 16 | Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings . |
| 17 | The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business . |
| 18 | Course , I 'm sat in the office like this , and they 're all sitting down to their lovely fo five course meal and of course great ! |
| 19 | These are sent to patients with a request to take them along to their general practitioner within 10 days . |
| 20 | Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form . |
| 21 | Incidentally , any players interested in other courses at The Guitar Institute , Basstech or Drumtech might fancy going along to their second Open Day on Saturday , 19th September at either 3.00pm or 5.00pm … |
| 22 | The others did n't invite her along to their own revels . |
| 23 | ‘ Farmers are having to tune in to their unused assets , ’ says Mr Dockerty . |
| 24 | Buyers Barbara and Tom Mason are looking forward to moving in to their new Blyth home this summer . |
| 25 | He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville . |
| 26 | Both May and Bert are determined not to give in to their physical weaknesses . |
| 27 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 28 | Soozi explains that if you place crystals close to you , your body will tune in to their vigorous vibrational frequency and be energised and healed . |
| 29 | Formula might then work not only as a symptom of ‘ mass mind ’ and homogenized thought ; the ‘ people ’ , condemned by Adorno to inertia while the processes of rationalization work themselves through to their totalitarian conclusion , might find that , drawing on old , collectively used methods , they can act , if only in compromised , ambiguous forms . |
| 30 | Norwich City0 Sunderland1 THE John Byrne and Malcolm Crosby FA Cup roadshow has rolled all the way to Wembley after Sunderland overcame First Division opposition at Hillsborough yesterday to squeeze through to their first final in 19 years . |