Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pipe , called the discharge pipe , soil pipe or soil stack , runs vertically down to connect directly to the drains ; the top of it is open to the air at least 900mm above the top of any opening windows which are within 3m of the stack , unless a relief valve is fitted to the top of the stack ( see drawing ) . |
| 2 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 3 | For organizations and clubs first timing it in this area Kinloss Canoe Club can always provide an experienced canoeist guide ( usually an instructor ) to join your flotilla and paddle along to give up to the minute on the spot information , or if you wish , to lead on the water , all at not cost , especially on the Findhorn . |
| 4 | This is because objectivity is usually narrowed down to refer only to a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 5 | Cadfael went to meet them as Sulien lighted down to speak hurriedly to the porter . |
| 6 | Shelley went in to speak quietly to her patients , trying to push to the back of her mind the knowledge that she might have left the drug cupboard open in her anxiety yesterday . |
| 7 | While Miss Turner left halfway through to go on to another show , Miss Collins popped backstage at the end to congratulate the actress . |
| 8 | Whatever had happened , nevertheless , he had not brought the girl back , but had turned her off to go home to her husband . |
| 9 | Then she rang Mrs Chalk , who agreed to curtail her afternoon off to dash back to Armscott , ready to pass on the news if Charles called home first . |
| 10 | Jack took one gulp , said ‘ Lovely stuff , and went off to tune in to the King 's Speech on the secret wireless , which only he could operate . |
| 11 | Occasionally , he broke off to bound up to Ruth Bassett 's bedroom where she was getting ready . |
| 12 | Mrs ca n't get up to go over to her . |
| 13 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 14 | He pulled on his respirator , his mind made up to get back to her as soon as he could , for Nell Anderson was all he cared about now . |
| 15 | He led her quickly up a staircase which began by being broad and stone and went on up to twist woodenly to the top of the tower . |
| 16 | The south east ridge leads down into a bowl of porridge-like peat , so I bore off eastwards , still rough enough , into the paring wind , crossing the Allt an t-Strathain Mhoir high up to drop down to the church . |
| 17 | Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle . |
| 18 | Now plans have been drawn up to scrap up to forty jobs and some services … the second round of cuts in a year . |
| 19 | Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels . |
| 20 | erm at the same time , the bones on the side of the skull got sort of gradually disappeared , so that when you clench your jaws there 's got somewhere for the muscles out to bulge out to , supposing you 've got big muscles . |
| 21 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 22 | She turned around to race up to her bedroom , but anger and hurt forced her to spin back to face him . |
| 23 | But of course parents do get anxious , about little problems and large : that their children will eat too many sweets and watch too many unsuitable videos at another child 's house : that their child will be egged on to get up to pranks , truant from school or worse . |
| 24 | The judges then went on to get through to the hub of the whole matter : |
| 25 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 26 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 27 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was just about to go over to the station when that arrived . ’ |
| 29 | C can , can I come back to , to , y y you 're about to go on to I think the riff-raff and about the revolution . |
| 30 | They were about to go through to the back-kitchen when the door behind the bar opened , and Connor came out with a large , pink-faced gentleman . |