Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money meks it difficult fe get down to de facts |
| 2 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
| 3 | And he would go away , he would n't say , Come on we 'll go down to the cleaners and tell them , he would go away himself you see . |
| 4 | Circular shafts were dug down to the seams and coal was then dug away from the sides until the pit was in danger of collapsing , which it eventually did after the pit had been abandoned . |
| 5 | The tough rugby player at first put the pain of his acute appendicitis down to the after-effects of his stag night . |
| 6 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 7 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 8 | Diane , send this down to the labs . |
| 9 | Diane , send this down to the labs . |
| 10 | The model boats in his room , both racing yachts on which his father had crewed , varnished and painted , detailed painstaking work which was accurate down to the nameplates fixed at the stern , Caprimo , Sea Witch . |
| 11 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |
| 12 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 13 | so I got them , me mum got me some black ones , but they 're like , they come right down to the ankles |
| 14 | Marilyn 's it it 's not right down to the ankles but it 's reasonable you know and it 's peach . |
| 15 | Native rapture at the tour is revealed in the columns of the Ceylon Sportsman , which reported its every detail down to the Australians ' results in social terms of tennis and golf . |
| 16 | Although marketing is done centrally , the success of a franchise is also down to the efforts of the franchisee in drumming up business . |
| 17 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 18 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 19 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 20 | After a while I wound my way down to the cottages . |
| 21 | He was then required to go down to the ranges to practise shooting with the 9 mm pistol . |
| 22 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 23 | He inaugurated nationwide consultation , down to the grass-roots level . |
| 24 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 25 | " Dashed down to the Friars , where Romney'skind Lord |
| 26 | Down to the shelters while |
| 27 | It could all come down to the doorsteps in Darlington . |
| 28 | But a lot of the improvement is down to the cameras . |
| 29 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 30 | This huge circular chamber has walls which are inlaid with a complete circle of archways , and in the centre of the room is a spiral staircase which leads directly down to the dungeons ( location 69 ) . |