Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |
| 5 | Willie sat down to breakfast in a clean grey shirt and jersey , pressed grey shorts and polished boots . |
| 6 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whole communities were being , so to speak , lifted out of the mother country and planted down in villages already prepared for them , even down to food in the larder . |
| 10 | Ammonia is the toxic waste produced by the fish and this is initially bacterially broken down to nitrite in your filtration system . |
| 11 | WHEN a Charlton chief sat down to dinner in times gone by and found a spur on the table where his meal should have been , he knew the cupboard was bare once . |
| 12 | On her first evening at Thomas 's house , after the shopping spree , she had shyly come down to dinner in one of her new dresses . |
| 13 | He was often down to earth in that way . |
| 14 | The leaders were brought down to earth in the Hanson Cup when Darren Crumpton 's half century steered Goodlass to victory . |
| 15 | Kevin Darley , heading for a record score this season after doubling his tally in the past 17 days , was brought down to earth in an ugly fall at Pontefract . |
| 16 | Yet when Luzma , my sympathetic travel agent , took me in a taxi down to contrabando in Cuzco , it had not been to buy a camera . |
| 17 | Both of us taken down to hospital in a kind of litter — there were no cars in Simla , only rickshaws . |
| 18 | They then returned to the Print Room , while guests went in to luncheon in the Great Hall . |
| 19 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 20 | Write in to POSTBAG in which the best letter in our judgement will earn its author a litre and half of WHYTE & MACKAY Special Reserve Scotch Whisky . |
| 21 | Eric Williams and the P.N.M. would take Trinidad through to Independence in 1962 , having failed to align the whole of the West Indies into a single federation . |
| 22 | A few months later came the California Motion Picture Corporation 's Salvation Nell , in which we follow the adventures of a young girl from the New York tenements , where her drunken father kills her mother and where all her associates are drunks or wasters , through to happiness in the arms of a Salvation Army major . |
| 23 | Clifford , 16 , who attends Clacton County High School , has brittle bones but his determination saw him through to victory in Saturday 's race , which was also open to the able-bodied . |
| 24 | For a long time these two between them do most of the Equity work , though the Court of Exchequer has also developed an Equity jurisdiction , an ‘ Equity side ’ , which , however , is handed over to Chancery in 1842 : it is now administered by the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court . |
| 25 | It was the latter 's religious and political disaffection which took most of the county over to Parliament in the Civil Wars . |
| 26 | I have to go over to hand in my register now there 's no one here to take charge of it . ’ |
| 27 | It is a complex and profound tour de force which carried much of its weight over to radio in Cleverdon 's adaptation and production . |
| 28 | Like many of the heroes of his novels — notably Moira , recently reissued in English by Quartet Books — he is someone who gave himself over to pleasure in his youth , travelling endlessly in search of new sensations , both enslaved to sensuality and contemptuous of it — in his own words , ‘ crucified by sex ’ . |
| 29 | Despite his boasts of political eminence in England , the Leader of the British National Socialist Party had a dread of being bundled off to internment in Silesia as an undesirable alien . |
| 30 | Only the twins are able to convince the terrorist stone to renounce his plan , yet once the crisis has been averted they are sent off to school in Germany . |