Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 2 | Even before ministers get down to arguing over the details , they face a row about whether the proposed company statute can be approved by a majority vote ( as the commission would like ) or must be passed unanimously . |
| 3 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
| 4 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 5 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 6 | Now they may have their own reasons for that and it may be difficult for them to send someone at this precise moment , but I do n't think that they 're necessarily geared up to dealing with the sorts of things that you want them to deal with . |
| 7 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 8 | In her present sensitive frame of mind she did n't feel up to looking like the poor relation beside him , but then , she had no intention of going anywhere near him . |
| 9 | A bigger problem that converting between video standards is that fact that most older monitors are simply not up to working with the high resolutions that the PC needs . |
| 10 | What they saw , as one put it , were two people who were n't up to boating in the bath , never mind on the Thames in spate . |
| 11 | She was not up to coping with the motion of the train . |
| 12 | If the champagne bottle had survived she 'd probably be in that state anyway , and it would at least postpone the inevitable for a while ; she did n't feel up to coping with the consequences of her behaviour just yet . |
| 13 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 14 | He 's working himself up to walking into the Admiralty and telling them he 's getting messages in his head from Russian submarines . |
| 15 | I went back to looking at the screen . |
| 16 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 17 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 18 | We still may not know who gave orders and made guide sketches — and Professor Alexander is extremely cautious in references to heads of workshops and their assistants — but the fact that such marks exist at all will send us all back to gazing into the parchment margins beside initials . |
| 19 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 20 | Then I went back to rehearsing with the band while she sat around listening . |
| 21 | Including such local luminaries as Marina Van Rooy ( left ) , singer of the sadly overlooked dance single ‘ Sly One ’ , DJ Mike Pickering , graphics star Grand Central Design , novelist Trevor Miller and ( if he ever gets round to posing for the cameras ) our very own correspondent John McCready , ‘ Faces North West ’ is an exhibition by Liverpool-based photographers Mark McNulty and Solon Papadopoulos . |