Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She crouched down to retrieve a comb from underneath the seat in front , and her fingers brushed what appeared to be a small piece of card . |
| 32 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 33 | When people came in to choose a light fitting , how often do you think that they considered what they wanted the light for , or whether they liked , or whether they choose it because they liked the style of the design of the light fitting ? |
| 34 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 35 | We 're now sitting down to pick a squad for New Zealand where things will be different in so many respects . ’ |
| 36 | In retrospect they were predators moving in to destroy a site . |
| 37 | Mark gave me one of Sophie 's doorstops — a sleeping fox , and we went down to visit a friend in the Borders with Ethel for support . |
| 38 | It was early morning and I went down to answer a bang on the front door of Dad 's house . |
| 39 | The jet lines up at the tanker 's serving carriage and drives the hose back in to open a valve . |
| 40 | Parents ' giving in to avoid a fight reinforces the child 's difficult behaviour next time this same situation occurs and can also be dangerous : 2-year-olds do n't forget and so parents can not hope that their child will not remember their giving in . |
| 41 | As the terrified animal stood in nine inches of stagnant water , Miss Paterson , aged 27 , who lives in Stockton , climbed down to administer a sedative . |
| 42 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 43 | HOUSING officers have stepped in to help a mum who says her three children are virtual prisoners in their new home . |
| 44 | During my visit this year , several local people popped in to buy a chunk of freshly made cheese , which was cut straight from the truckle and cleanly wrapped in greaseproof paper . |
| 45 | Yes , yes , just disappeared , yeah , right , right , well I 'll ask Alistair , oh well uhum , I would n't hold out a lot of hope , huh , somehow , his uhum , he puts in an appearance at the summer fair for half an hour and looks round , says I think I 'll go now , , I 'll leave you to it you know , keep the children , , that 's it , is n't it , his taken our Clare in to buy a tennis racket . |
| 46 | The sort of people who cried with relief when you went in to buy a piece of Elastoplast . |
| 47 | The road was open , and dropped down to cross a valley . |
| 48 | " As a matter of fact , " said Clara , " I did put my name down to do a Dip Ed . |
| 49 | It jumped in to fill a gap when InterCity ended seated accommodation on most sleeping car trains . |
| 50 | They 've got sort of mind you they have their own training sort of regime as well , which in some ways is , means it 's quite good experience because it is structured in , in a , in a way to give you some training , whereas of course if you just go in to do a job then erm how much sort of training you get varies a bit . |
| 51 | He was called in to give a boost to the campaign to get more pupils to have lunch at school … and as Mike Rowbottom found out , he seems to have enjoyed it . |
| 52 | The wire leading to pin 3 is then dipped in to give a pulse . |
| 53 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 54 | If forced down to form a layer near the Earth 's surface it would only be five millimetres thick . |
| 55 | The real damage , when a fish shows these tufts , is taking place within its body tissues , which are being digested down to form a nutrient , enabling the branched filaments to spread . |
| 56 | Crossing sets of stitches tend to draw the work in and to prevent this in part and to make crossing the sets of stitches easier , it is usual to run at least one stitch at either side of the cable down to form a ladder . |
| 57 | And when he 'd put the envelope down to put a stamp on it — ‘ Face upwards , Shirley ! ’ — why , she could n't help noticing who it was addressed to , now could she ? |
| 58 | Madame put her glass down to put a cigarette in her holder . |
| 59 | When this operation was completed our shore unit moved in to seize a total of 196 kilos of cannabis which in those days was worth well over £300,000 , while Alert intercepted Cornish Lady before she was able to escape . |
| 60 | Kelly was down to ride a two-year-old called Billy Liar for second lot . |