Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 2 | Providing that the forms get down to the computer in London on time |
| 3 | He says Come down to the surgery in the morning . |
| 4 | He watched as the women of the village — his new wife , Beruna , among them — rushed down to the waterline in their reed skirts . |
| 5 | Those going by sea of course came right down to the quay in in Porthmadog . |
| 6 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 7 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 8 | We decided to leave it all before the Lord and relax , and we planned a visit down to the base in June . |
| 9 | I do n't want you walking down to the pub in this , in the dark cold night . |
| 10 | His face was burned right down to the bone in places , and one eye had curdled into a white lump . |
| 11 | The great Te Deum and Jubilate in D are generously supplemented with four major verse anthems-My Heart Is Inditing , O Sing Unto The Lord , They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships and Praise The Lord , O Jerusalem . |
| 12 | I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock . |
| 13 | " They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters ; these men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep … so when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble He delivereth them out of this distress . |
| 14 | The sun was still hidden behind Spyglass Hill , which came down to the sea in dangerous cliffs on this side of the island . |
| 15 | This pleasant hotel is built on a slight rise , and has excellent views of the mountains behind it and down to the village in front . |
| 16 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 17 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 18 | We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside . |
| 19 | She went straight down to the kitchen in the basement where her mutterings turned into a clear expression of disgust at the mess , cooking vessels all over the place and nothing cleared up . |
| 20 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 21 | Women came down to the river in groups to wash clothes and pots . |
| 22 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 23 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |
| 24 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 25 | but individuals have a responsibility for crime as well , because the ownership of , of crime problems is not just the police , it 's down to the community in which that the people live . |
| 26 | Now what was required then was that although the job was in a rush , the management had to telephone down to the Admiralty in Bath to get the appropriate sanction you know , to , to accept the cylinder with the er bigger gauge bore . |
| 27 | Never again would it scorch down the winding lanes to the Saracen 's Head in Lincoln , the destination for most of the RAF Officers in the neighbourhood on their nights off , or even just down to the local in the village . |
| 28 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 29 | No cattle to worry about tonight he thought and settled down to the job in hand . |
| 30 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |