Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 2 | But during the period of the war the bakers sadly fell down to about the middle of the table through the old saying that you 've got to be patriotic and help the war effort . |
| 3 | ’ The Royal Oak in Keswick wins special praise — after watching horse-racing at Crow Park Green dined in company there , and had ‘ one of the best ever dinners I have sat down to in the North of England . ’ |
| 4 | come up from , had a jug or two at come over here and stay the night and then walk down to in the morning . |
| 5 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 6 | So who does the responsibility come down to in the end ? |
| 7 | But the two lifestyles were incompatible ; the herdsman followed — and later drove — his animals from grazing to grazing and became a nomad , whilst the gatherer settled down to till the soil and defend his crops from predators . |
| 8 | At the moment we do n't Relating to the transport issue , we have n't yet a link from the northwest down through to the chunnel in to into the rest of Europe . |
| 9 | Of the fifty two children entering the school in September 1991 only six percent had received nursery education , compared with thirty nine percent from families who have moved in to in the past . |
| 10 | I mean un unless you make the control room blast proof , which is maybe a thing to be looked in to in the future and then again they 're speaking about making the accommodation module separate from the platform itself which is another thing , but I mean that 's all to be looked at . |
| 11 | ‘ Where are you off to over the weekend ? ’ |
| 12 | If you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , read what that council has got up to over the past four years , you will appreciate fully , just as people in Hackney do , just how shameful the record is . |
| 13 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 14 | See for yourself what Carr got up to with the sun on his back in an exhibition of his paintings on the continent . |
| 15 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 16 | up to about the age of fourteen . |
| 17 | Cos it 's I was good up to around the window . |
| 18 | The inner ring comprised the older areas built up to around the turn of the century , which because of their high density and lack of open space required ‘ decentralizing ’ , involving 415,000 persons . |
| 19 | Not now anyway , though God knows what they got up to in the past . |
| 20 | If you sometimes wish you had eyes in the back of your head to see exactly what the children are getting up to in the back of the car , you 'll be pleased to hear about The Lane Changer from Automotive . |
| 21 | She says that goodness knows what you could get up to in the back of it ! |
| 22 | If one were in possession of all those binary numbers in sequence , could one infer the highest level of program or , to put it another way , could one infer what the machine was actually up to in the sense of paying tax refunds to the citizens of London , as distinct from translating a book from English to Chinese ? |
| 23 | His face is black , whatever do you get up to in the car ? |
| 24 | Sooner or later this burden will have to be faced up to in the form of higher taxation either now or in the future . |
| 25 | And of these fourteen families , two returned their cheques , with quite a lot of ceremony , to BP Coal once they discovered what in fact BP Coal were up to in the district ’ . |
| 26 | Dot used to have Gloria to snuggle up to in the dark . |
| 27 | ’ What worries me is what they 'll get up to by the time we get to the competitions , and they 're a bit bevvied . ’ |
| 28 | Oh well it was just this er meal we went out to in the evening . |
| 29 | Me and Bill , he 's dead we had an ajax come through to and go on to Ireland , to go back to Dublin , yeah , they 're going back to with the plane . |
| 30 | Go going back to before the War , erm last time you spoke you mentioned a s strike in nineteen thirteen . |