Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invert on to wire rack and cool completely . |
| 2 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 3 | He offers no explanation , as they sit down to dinner , and Anne and Millie talk about other things . |
| 4 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
| 5 | I feed her and get her washed and undressed and ready for bed and then these two sit down to tea . |
| 6 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |
| 7 | This is a useful aid to accurate manual focusing : zoom in to telephoto , set the focus , and then zoom back out to frame the shot the way you want it . |
| 8 | According to the book of legends you have just shown us , Arthur came here to drink from the Grail , whilst one of his knights , Sir Bedivere , reputedly took Excalibur down to Narepool which is only three miles from Glastonbury . |
| 9 | As they trace their lazy parabolas back down to earth , these bits twist around slowly , over and over , until they hit the ground with a flop or a flump , splodging out to form round , flattish masses . |
| 10 | An associated space-camera relays the data back down to Earth . |
| 11 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 12 | Light fittings : Remove covers , tubes or bulbs and bring down to ground level unless an access platform is used . |
| 13 | Brush with water and press on to bottom of cake . |
| 14 | The crack above is quite awkward to start , but press on to finish this long pitch in one . |
| 15 | In my long experience of this species , I have noticed that as long as you have only a few juveniles over 1″ , these seem to stop growing at around 1.25″ , until an adult dies , whereupon a young fish will fill the gap and grow on to adult size at a remarkable rate . |
| 16 | The down side has included a touch of envy from rivals determined to bring the Barcelona champion down to earth . |
| 17 | When you are ready , fly down to Earth ; settle on the moist green banks of a running stream . |
| 18 | The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly . |
| 19 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 20 | The transmiss-ion process through to money incomes and prices is then determined by the interaction between money supply and demand . |
| 21 | In next field keep well to left of trees ahead by bearing quarter left ( soon fence away to right comes into view ) . |
| 22 | The best known in the West is probably shakudo , which is a copper alloy with a deep black patina , but other copper alloys were patinated to produce colours ranging from shades of grey and brown through to green . |
| 23 | A man like this would not rise at dawn , hurry off to work , and return home hours later , weary and exhausted . |
| 24 | At the last minute the parent would abandon its charade and fly off to safety . |
| 25 | ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price ’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . |
| 26 | We began to experience something of the build up to labour pains . |
| 27 | sorting out and then I 've got to go down to that conference and fly up to Stone Haven |
| 28 | For school librarians , SLG News , the School Librarian , Education Libraries Bulletin , School Library Journal , Emergency Librarian and Australian School Librarian provide up to date information on practice and research . |
| 29 | AA REPORT BACK TO CAMP IMMEDIATELY |
| 30 | Then send the message ‘ AA REPORT BACK TO CAMP IMMEDIATELY ’ again — but this time in Morse ! |