Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 2 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 3 | They put it down to indecision and the overwhelming charms of both suitors . |
| 4 | This figure understated the case ; much more land had been put down to pasture and the tenants had been forced to leave . |
| 5 | ‘ I realise something is wrong , and I do n't have to look too far to know the cause , ’ she added darkly , ‘ but you must get down to work or the show will be a failure , and you do n't want that to happen , do you ? ’ |
| 6 | It was noticeable that infringements occurred in the last quarter more than in the rest of the game and I put this down to tiredness and a resulting lack of concentration . |
| 7 | Lincolns flew with a full bomb load and operated at relatively low levels , sometimes down to 500ft if the weather was unsettled . |
| 8 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |
| 9 | Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation . |
| 10 | If , let us suppose , you were driving south from Mâcon or Bourg-en-Bresse ( I would stay chez La Mere Blanc at Vonnas ) you could drive through La-Tour-du-Pin , Saint-Rambert d'Albon , Beaurepaire d'Isère , Beaumont-les-Valence , La Garde-Adhémar , St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux — the three castles which gave their name to the Tricastin district — then down to Suze-La-Rousse and the tiny village of Donzère and its great nearby dam which is as wondrous and absorbing a spectacle in its way as any of the great Roman glories of this province through which , they claim , Hannibal marched with his Carthaginians — and presumably his elephants — two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years ago . |
| 11 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 12 | In Huarina the tarmac was abandoned for the dirt road that would take us through Achacachi , honouring us with our last good look at the Ancohuma massif before we rolled endlessly down to Sorata and the warm , wetting mists of Yungas . |
| 13 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 14 | Tomorrow will be a different matter though , trying to get down to Perugia before the hostel shuts . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 16 | Whatever the pleasure at ‘ new experiments ’ , the party in effect gave in to nationalism and the social forces it represented . |
| 17 | That is a reasonable proposition because , if the Minister is sincere , the last thing that he would want would be to rush in to sell-offs when the buy-out teams were not ready to participate . |
| 18 | rest of it biggest part of it and some of , part if it 's in to grass and the other part I think is gradually gon na go to grass I think |
| 19 | However , whilst noting that view , we are primarily concerned with the passage of legal problems through to lawyers and the reasons why that passage may become obstructed . |
| 20 | Sadly , more than 50 countries from Latin America through to Africa and the Far East , brutalise their children . |
| 21 | Can I just clarify , what , what you 're saying is that in a sense there is this overall aim of getting through to socialism but the means of getting there have now changed so that we 've gone from absolute egalitarianism , which is , is an immediate step tow towards socialism you 've gone away from that and the position is now to create a rich peasant economy in order to industrialize , in order to get through to collectivization , I E into socialism . |
| 22 | A radio paging system means staff can be bleeped when needed , all they have to do is go to the nearest intercom substation and they are straight through to reception or the management office . |
| 23 | It stretched from the infancy of radio broadcasting in the early twenties right through to television and the present day . |
| 24 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 25 | Agnew Speedy coming in Ormanroyd then got in his way rather but it comes still to Thomson he lays it off to Lewis and the cross is too hard . |
| 26 | Let it be some dreamy boy of about seventeen with his hair cut in ‘ curtains ’ and some really nice gear , then she could show off to Sam and the others ! |
| 27 | Now we 're off to America and the desert of southern California for the first of a four part series featuring the RAF 's parachute display team — the Falcons . |
| 28 | The idea , by the way is to bite the sleeve , though a helicopter 's on hand to whisk the criminal off to hospital if the dog gets carried away . |
| 29 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 30 | England star Martin Dugard is set to ride off to Eastbourne as the cheetahs struggle to find a new financial backer … there are talks this weekend but if no deal is done then Dugard is certain to sign for the Sussex team … he does n't want to go but may have to … |