Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 2 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 3 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 4 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 5 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 6 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 7 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
| 8 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 9 | For the large flag , paint a straw with silver food colouring and when dry , glue on to the large paper triangle . |
| 10 | Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ; |
| 11 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 12 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 14 | I sometimes head off to a certain place . |
| 15 | All modems hook up to a serial port . |
| 16 | Some devices for keeping costs low are employed and these can , where required , provide up to an extra 20% of expenditure : a popular ploy is to purchase stationery in advance and then resell it cheaply to the candidate as second-hand stock . |
| 17 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
| 18 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 19 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 20 | Change over to the main bed sinker plate . |
| 21 | The next chapter considers the specific question of the CNAA 's relationships with its associated institutions , and the policy pressures operating from and towards the Council , and carries that account through to the 1980s . |
| 22 | hold on to every difficult breath |
| 23 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
| 24 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 25 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 26 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |
| 27 | Hold on to the furthest part of the leg that you can reach without straining , lowering the body as close to the leg as possible . |
| 28 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 29 | Walk on to the unstable cliff tops . |
| 30 | But in practice , neither popular music , however understood , nor its Others — ‘ folk song ’ , ‘ traditional music ’ , ‘ art music ’ , ‘ bourgeois music ’ , or whatever else — walk on to the historical stage in this uncontaminated form . |