Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the large flag , paint a straw with silver food colouring and when dry , glue on to the large paper triangle . |
| 6 | 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 ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Change over to the main bed sinker plate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college . |
| 17 | Walk on to the unstable cliff tops . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 20 | A senescent safecracker and an odd kid break in to the same house at the same time : the safecracker for cash , the kid to apple-pie the beds , read the mail and raid the fridge . |
| 21 | That 's interesting where do they meet , walk down to the local church and that 's great well what sort of time do they meet oh you know eleven till five ? |
| 22 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 23 | The first operation on the lathe is to mark the inside and outside diameters of the foot , then cut in to the correct depths , measured from the template , using a parting tool . |
| 24 | The only money they put in to the chief executives and their two yearly pay re review performances that they get , for cutting other people 's wages or contracting Health Services and for somebody to have to travel that distance for a , to die , is absolutely appalling and it 's a disgrace . |
| 25 | Whether they break through to the next level will make interesting watching : the forthcoming exhibition and David Sylvester 's catalogue raisonné may prove influential . |
| 26 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 27 | By pushing the sail over to the left-hand side of the board the CE is also moved , causing the board to steer to the right . |
| 28 | ‘ The Newquay crowd just pose in Beetles covered in stickers and show off to the dodgy girls hanging around on Fistral beach , ’ opines Adam , who claims he 'd only visit the town to compete . |
| 29 | In such a situation , the colours show up to the best advantage , and the angling of the light helps to ‘ model ’ the detail and separate the planes to increase the illusion of depth . |
| 30 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |