Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAPID leaf movements are usually put down to changes in turgor pressure . |
| 2 | Maquet , like Child , brought the philosophical debate about the sociology of knowledge down to differences in philosophical positions , differences due to different ontologies of social being and of knowledge . |
| 3 | As guests sat down to lunch in the company 's magnificent dining room earlier this week , the fellow with his back to the window was asked if there was too much of a draught . |
| 4 | If so , you 'll have probably booked your place in a hall of residence , your grant will arrive on the first day of term , you 'll be ready to enjoy Freshers ' Fair and soon settle down to studies in the library . |
| 5 | ‘ You are a right dickhead — ’ I broke it to him gently — ‘ if you think we are driving down to Brixton in that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It went down to Jim in the path lab . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'll bring her down to Florence in that case ? ’ |
| 8 | Then the excuse for a trip had turned up , and they 'd driven down to Stranraer in a trail of tourist cars , and she 'd played cassettes and talked a little in her soft English voice , while he sat there hardly believing his luck . |
| 9 | Cos I went down to Colchester in the July , in the July . |
| 10 | You lose your nerve , drive down to Streatley in secret , change the tape in your father 's Ansaphone , prepare the body and move your whole schedule forward a week . |
| 11 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 12 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 13 | We had organized a helicopter to get him down to London in time . |
| 14 | When a deputation of framework knitters from the east Midlands came down to London in 1812 to lobby in support of a bill to regulate the hosiery trade , they had no difficulty in making contact with trade unionists . |
| 15 | We shouted ourselves first-class to Leeds , drank in the lounge of one of better hotels until match time , and strolled down to Headingley in a biting wind , Eastern Australian writers and film makers . |
| 16 | ‘ Come down to Connections in Ashton on Monday . |
| 17 | Like Paul Weller 's 18th birthday , going down to Twickenham in a mini-cab with him to try to meet Pete Townshend . |
| 18 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |
| 19 | Willie sat down to breakfast in a clean grey shirt and jersey , pressed grey shorts and polished boots . |
| 20 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 21 | The Leeds boss still shudders at the memory of his old Sheffield Wednesday side going 4-3 down to Chelsea in a League Cup tie seven years ago after cruising at 3-0 up . |
| 22 | Yeah , I came I went up about a year ago , I remember when I went down to Hertford in the yeah , I said I , I forgot to say what ticket and they automatically give you an adult do n't they ? |
| 23 | These beliefs of Rousseau would have filtered down to Wordsworth in any case ; like the cult of Feeling ( see Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility ) they were part of the climate of opinion by the 1790s . |
| 24 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 25 | we 'll probably end up doing a bit to the garden this year as opposed to er you know going to , we were gon na go down to Somerset in June were n't we ? |
| 26 | Today , they will inevitably go 2-0 down to India in the three-match series . |
| 27 | I had a bike and could pedal down to Middleton in Teesdale , meet Marie , take her to the pictures — not the best seats mind — then buy us both fish and chips and still have change out of that two bob . |
| 28 | There are 43 cars scheduled to take part in the second World Solar Challenge , which runs from Darwin on Australia 's northern coast down to Adelaide in the south , using public roads . |
| 29 | According to opinion polls in late March , only 12% of those questioned ( down to 9% in one poll ) had a favourable opinion of it . |
| 30 | Life makes the worst video you 've ever seen look like a masterpiece , and the episode I 'm about to relate was well down to par in this respect . |