Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 2 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 3 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 4 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 5 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 6 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
| 7 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 8 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 9 | Here and there an effort has been made at renovation , but always in deplorable taste , ‘ Georgian ’ bay windows or Scandinavian-style pine porches clapped on to the Victorian and Edwardian facades . |
| 10 | When it eventually reveals the secret of life itself , or something approaching it , it will be , you can rest assured , passed on to the ordinary people out there . |
| 11 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 12 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 13 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 14 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 15 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 16 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 17 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 18 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 19 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 20 | At the top of the hill Ossian still had the lead , and he kept in front as the runners made down to the final bend , though Pistol Packer and Caro were improving their positions . |
| 21 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 22 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 23 | ‘ Any landing you walk away from is a good one , ’ she exclaimed as they taxied in to the small terminal . |
| 24 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |
| 25 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 26 | So Lewis drove down to the bottom of South Parks Road , where he was ushered through into the University Parks by a policeman on duty at the entrance to the single-track road which led down to the bathing area . |
| 27 | Beyond the tower a narrow path led down to the rocky shore below . |
| 28 | A gentle stroll through the gardens led down to the beautiful long , wide beach . |
| 29 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 30 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |