Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
| 5 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 6 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The only other observation is that the screen brilliance is n't up to battling with a bright sunlit office , or overhead fluorescent lights , but that could apply to the majority of today 's notebook computers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was not up to coping with the motion of the train . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 's working himself up to walking into the Admiralty and telling them he 's getting messages in his head from Russian submarines . |
| 18 | I went back to looking at the screen . |
| 19 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 20 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |
| 23 | Do I go back to modelling for a living ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax . |
| 26 | Then I went back to rehearsing with the band while she sat around listening . |
| 27 | Taking her A levels and hoping to go on to read for a degree in hospitality management at Norwich City college . |
| 28 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 29 | 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 . |