Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up . |
| 2 | Students seem much more inclined to knuckle down to the work and not get involved in quite such dramatic protests as they were before . |
| 3 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 5 | And I 'll go down to the church and park by the church , how about that ? |
| 6 | She remembered me coming down to the burn and tramping the bags in the the , help to wash them . |
| 7 | Well when , when Friar Lawrence returned when he was meant to be giving the letter to Romeo , I was just devastated , I did I just did n't know what to do so all I could do was rush down to the graveyard and try and stop Romeo , by the time I was there it was too late . |
| 8 | Toby went down to the door and returned , followed by Sikes . |
| 9 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 10 | and right next to those were stairs down to the basement but they 've still got the basement , mm mm |
| 11 | The au-pair maid went down to the basement and again started plotting with her friend how soon they would have enough money for the fare home to Zurich . |
| 12 | No but er I saw Heidi when I was on my way down to the grubber and Heidi had a slightly massive armful of chocolate , I was going what are you doing , she said I 've got ta go and make Sophie sick |
| 13 | If you drive down to the course that needs to be your transport when you get your first assignment . |
| 14 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 15 | In Alexandria he found that the railway meandered down to the beach and passengers had to find their way on to the trains without any benefit of station buildings . |
| 16 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 17 | Pop down to the beach and sell it to the pedlar ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 19 | William Ryder , 57 , took a bottle of barbiturate tablets from his pharmacy , went down to the beach and swallowed about 500 of them , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 20 | There 's a public access down to the beach and I just turned round and took it and there 's these places that you rent you know ? |
| 21 | Mrs Glews : Well first of all you heard the sirens go off and then you all went down to the shelter and you could hear the planes coming over . |
| 22 | Much of the credit for Mansell 's success has been put down to the sophistication and reliability of the Didcot developed Williams car . |
| 23 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 24 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |
| 25 | I 'd go down to the bottom and try all the locks , come up , go along the next street . |
| 26 | They 'd let them sink down to the bottom and drift there with the long-haired weeds — ; |
| 27 | She poked again — dug right down to the bottom and up through the shambles came something that signalled with painful clarity . |
| 28 | coal , and then rake down to the bottom and that 's when you open the little door for the draught to go up and they cal they call them tortoise stove . |
| 29 | See the idea was it it picked up the the balls , took them to the and then the ball rolled round inside globe , slowly down to the bottom and then picked it up |
| 30 | Go down to the bottom and it does the same to go to the top . |