Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] to [noun] " 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 | Pick up the 4 e-wrap stitches all across the row and place on to needles . |
| 14 | Place on to skewers alternately with pieces of onion , green and red peppers and the mushrooms , adding a bay leaf to the skewers at intervals to give flavour . |
| 15 | Anyway Mr Kobold suggested that I press on to Manchester tonight . ’ |
| 16 | Brush with water and press on to bottom of cake . |
| 17 | The crack above is quite awkward to start , but press on to finish this long pitch in one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Don and wife Barbara will travel to Hobart in Tasmania to watch the start of the third leg on February 13 and then fly on to London via Sydney and Los Angeles . |
| 20 | They planned to visit the Rockies and fly on to Vancouver and then down into the States . |
| 21 | The down side has included a touch of envy from rivals determined to bring the Barcelona champion down to earth . |
| 22 | This is intended as a sort of coda to the movie : fade in to scenes of rooms strewn with festive remains , stacked dishes awaiting washing up , some of the more senior party-goers taking a nap . |
| 23 | So we spend a season trying to adjust — a tough job in particular for the senior players who have spent up to 20 years operating a certain way — and then find it may all change again weeks before the British Lions fly down to New Zealand . |
| 24 | When you are ready , fly down to Earth ; settle on the moist green banks of a running stream . |
| 25 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 26 | Tommy and Iain head over to Christopher 's . |
| 27 | The transmiss-ion process through to money incomes and prices is then determined by the interaction between money supply and demand . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A man like this would not rise at dawn , hurry off to work , and return home hours later , weary and exhausted . |
| 30 | Right , if we erm , nip off to Tesco 's now , what 's the time , half past ten are we going to go into Tesco 's now Charlotte and have a ride in the trolley ? |