Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 2 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 3 | He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge . |
| 4 | Native rapture at the tour is revealed in the columns of the Ceylon Sportsman , which reported its every detail down to the Australians ' results in social terms of tennis and golf . |
| 5 | In the end it come down to the individual 's sense of being violated and the individual 's reassertion of his or her pride . |
| 6 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 7 | They loaded the Zodiac dinghy , outboard motor , and the limpet mines into the camper and drove south , reaching Auckland around 7.30 p.m. where witnesses living at Stanley Point on the northern shore of Auckland Harbour saw two men take an inflatable dinghy out of a camper van and carry it down to the water 's edge . |
| 8 | ‘ A sweeping white beach fringed with date palms and oleanders … a sea so blue , you 'll think it was made in Heaven … luxury five-star accommodation , with a bar that reaches down to the water 's edge , and an internationally-famed restaurant where the food is as sensational as the setting … |
| 9 | I lay my tackle down , being careful not to cause any vibrations , and creep down to the water 's edge some fifteen yards upstream of the tree . |
| 10 | They stripped in silence and he took her hand as they walked down to the water 's edge . |
| 11 | He laid his bike on the grass verge and went down to the water 's edge . |
| 12 | From the village there is a three mile causeway down to the water 's edge where there are reed-beds . |
| 13 | He scrambled down to the water 's edge . |
| 14 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 15 | They went down to the water 's edge and Gran poked with her stick , mouth twisting in on itself . |
| 16 | Lucker comes down to the water 's edge . |
| 17 | She dug down to the water 's edge and the water flowed into it . |
| 18 | He stepped down to the water 's edge and smelled the air hard . |
| 19 | Why do n't you go down to the optician 's and see about it ? ’ |
| 20 | He ran the trolley down to the corridor 's end and left it there for someone else to pick up and use , and then he doubled back and started to walk the distance to the locker room . |
| 21 | Why not take it down to the firm 's office and let the experts see it for themselves ? |
| 22 | Less than 20 minutes walk from the centre of Sorrento , guests can take the lift down to the hotel 's private beach or use the adult and children 's sea-water pools . |
| 23 | She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night . |
| 24 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 25 | I feel like jumping out and running down to the sea 's edge with bucket and spade . |
| 26 | And he can safely set down to the Spirit 's guidance anything which brings Jesus into sharper focus . |
| 27 | You must ask the mermaids to turn the wheel , and whirl you down to the sea-king 's halls . |
| 28 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 29 | So the mermaids spun the wheel until there was a great funnel-hole in the sea , and the fisherman 's boat went riding down to the sea-king 's palace . |
| 30 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |