Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 2 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 3 | A few weeks later the boy complained of a further assault ; the tailor was again convicted and once more fined £5 , but on this occasion the clerk to the Board applied successfully to the magistrates for the boy to be discharged from his indentures . |
| 4 | The secrets were probably gone , passed on to the Russians . |
| 5 | Some of the cost can be borne by the management company and passed on to the owners through the maintenance charge , but the proportion relating to the construction and pre-sales periods will have to be borne by ourselves as developers . |
| 6 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 7 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 8 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 9 | Steps led down to the banks of the river , and from the water 's edge , the ruins of the castle dominated the skyline . |
| 10 | A silver stairway on stage led down to the stalls . |
| 11 | Tiny fields , green and white where the snow was melting again , led down to the outskirts of the town . |
| 12 | At dawn on the morning of his twelfth birthday — in the official court annals his thirteenth , for they accorded with ancient Han tradition in calling the day of the child 's birth its first ‘ birth day ’ — Li Yuan was woken by his father and , when he was dressed in the proper clothes , led down to the stables of the Tongjiang estate . |
| 13 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 14 | The producer , who was himself about to take the reins of the tour as it moved on to the regions of Britain as the Coca Cola Hit Man roadshow with Sinitta , Sonia and others from his stable below Kylie on the bill , said plans to take her to a major stadia like Wembley had been quickly dismissed . |
| 15 | Some of these visitors strolled along the promenade ; a few penetrated to the beach ; none ventured on to the cliffs . |
| 16 | Even now , he could savour the soft , succulent flesh , hear the sudden spurt of flame as the juices dripped on to the coals . |
| 17 | Her eyes moved swiftly to the others . |
| 18 | Hatch bent down to the plants . |
| 19 | It would probably be dangerous to underestimate the amount of information which percolated down to the classes which were not themselves involved in government , and it is likely that echoes of the political crises of the 1370s , notably the events of the Good Parliament of 1376 ( ch.16 ) , were heard in the countryside . |
| 20 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 21 | Having handed over her letter and waved goodbye , Perdita wandered down to the stables . |
| 22 | He moved coolly to the drinks cabinet , picked up the crystal decanter . |
| 23 | He objected strenuously to the terms of the ceasefire resolution passed by the UN Security Council on April 3rd ; but he accepted it ( as indeed he had to ) and is obeying its terms , more or less . |
| 24 | Bernice moved over to the creatures . |
| 25 | The primary school was a small school on one side and then we moved over to the boys , and the the boys school was on the top floor and the girls school was on the bottom floor . |
| 26 | He left the vehicle and moved over to the rocks . |
| 27 | At first she hovered in the farmyard , then she wandered over to the stables and sat on the outside steps up to Louis 's workroom . |
| 28 | The core of the Octobrist party , which had suffered major defections to the Right , and a new Progressive party , led by a group of Moscow industrialists , moved close to the Kadets , who in turn intensified their opposition to the government . |
| 29 | As his army approached close to the walls of Toulouse itself the townspeople seized the opportunity to emancipate themselves from comital authority . |
| 30 | As they drew close to the outskirts of Chichester itself rain clouds were gathering . |