Example sentences of "[adv] to [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 2 | Even before ministers get down to arguing over the details , they face a row about whether the proposed company statute can be approved by a majority vote ( as the commission would like ) or must be passed unanimously . |
| 3 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
| 4 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 5 | Chapter 12 is devoted entirely to thinking about the causal issues at stake . |
| 6 | Later in the war , as we shall see , the engineers ' struggle came close to merging with the larger pacifist cause : In 1916 , however , the brunt of resistance to the Military Service Act fell on those who were prepared to resist it directly — the conscientious objectors . |
| 7 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |
| 8 | But it was Bishops Cleve who went close to scoring on the half an hour as Cliff Powell on his debut ran through , his shot was parried by Paul Whittington in the Milton goal , and the Milton defence cleared the ball from the danger area as Mark Gill was on hand for Bishops to pounce on any mistakes made . |
| 9 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 10 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 11 | In her present sensitive frame of mind she did n't feel up to looking like the poor relation beside him , but then , she had no intention of going anywhere near him . |
| 12 | A bigger problem that converting between video standards is that fact that most older monitors are simply not up to working with the high resolutions that the PC needs . |
| 13 | What they saw , as one put it , were two people who were n't up to boating in the bath , never mind on the Thames in spate . |
| 14 | She was not up to coping with the motion of the train . |
| 15 | If the champagne bottle had survived she 'd probably be in that state anyway , and it would at least postpone the inevitable for a while ; she did n't feel up to coping with the consequences of her behaviour just yet . |
| 16 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 17 | He 's working himself up to walking into the Admiralty and telling them he 's getting messages in his head from Russian submarines . |
| 18 | That is carried , forty nine for , thirty two against , which brings us now to voting on the substantive motion . |
| 19 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 20 | I went back to looking at the screen . |
| 21 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 22 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 23 | We still may not know who gave orders and made guide sketches — and Professor Alexander is extremely cautious in references to heads of workshops and their assistants — but the fact that such marks exist at all will send us all back to gazing into the parchment margins beside initials . |
| 24 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 25 | Then I went back to rehearsing with the band while she sat around listening . |
| 26 | Do not climb a ladder or stepladder until you are sure it is high enough and stable — this applies particularly to getting into the roof space . |
| 27 | The difficulties can not plausibly be attributed to the compilers , who would hardly have confined themselves almost exclusively to interfering with the text of Scaevola . |
| 28 | MOYOLA went closest to scoring in the opening half in a move involving Rafferty and Calderwood , but Black 's kick went just over the crossbar . |
| 29 | Having watched the game live on the telly I though Leeds did a great job containing the scum , and remember we went the closest to scoring in the end ! |
| 30 | Sheila committed herself completely to working with the group that campaigned for wages for housework . |