Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the office of Jacques Attalli , president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , is a row of Russian matrioshka dolls , representing the great villains of the 20th century — Saddam Hussein , Adolf Hitler , Joseph Stalin , all the way down to a miniature Leonid Brezhnev . |
| 2 | They could go down to the Sain Caernarfon League . |
| 3 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 4 | Henderson drew a sharp contrast with the years after 1945 when Britain was still a major and respected force in world affairs , the dominant power in the Middle East down to the time of Suez , the second most important power in the Far East at least down to the 1954 Geneva Conference . |
| 5 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 6 | Thomas rose and beckoned Corbett over to one of the arrow-slit windows and pointed down to the winding River Lauder . |
| 7 | Lewis pointed down to the fast-flowing Cherwell . |
| 8 | Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande . |
| 9 | Barney gave in to her pleas , and agreed to transport the canoe down to the Little Avon river on the roof-rack of the Armstrong after lunch . |
| 10 | Dionne slung on a Dietrich tape and she and Jay escaped to the kitchen , leaving Jamie and Francis screaming along to a soul-searching Burt Bacharach number . |
| 11 | Ties in to the seven-part BBC series , |
| 12 | Soon we went in to the adjacent Marie Antoinette Room for luncheon . |
| 13 | Doddy is dropping in to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to open the refurbished Women 's Royal Voluntary Service tea bar . |
| 14 | RECRUITS were bused in to the strike-hit Timex factory in Dundee yesterday , replacements for some of the 300 workers sacked during the dispute . |
| 15 | For a purely parochial event , it must have been quite an occasion because I believe that it ran from Wednesday , through to the following Saturday . |
| 16 | I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver . |
| 17 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |
| 18 | Trying to avoid gazing at the grisly sight , the Leutnant sidled over to the statuesque Karnstein , and handed the envelope to her . |
| 19 | He was suspended for five matches by UEFA after his verbal attack on Swedish referee Rune Larrson during the European Cup-Winners ' Cup game against Spartak Moscow last October — four games of which will be carried over to the next Liverpool campaign in Europe following their elimination last October by Spartak Moscow . |
| 20 | John Stratford , the Bishop of Winchester , had not been the king 's candidate for the see and had had to buy the king 's good will for £1,000 , which was then paid over to the younger Despenser ; and the Bishop of Norwich had been the victim of the king 's annoyance about the treaty with Charles IV in 1325 , which the bishop had helped to negotiate . |
| 21 | Last term 's fund-raising efforts have now raised £1,048 for the Leukaemia Research Fund — and two sacks of old postage stamps have been sent off to the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Romanian children . |
| 22 | Hats off to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital for introducing a new scheme which means no parents will have to take their new baby home from the maternity unit without a proper infant carrier . |
| 23 | Also on the competition front one lucky reader will be flying off to the sunny Bahamas for her honeymoon — so hurry up and enter , it might just be you ! |
| 24 | In the evening it was off to the Scottish Crofters Union Annual Dinner . |
| 25 | That the written statement and its publication add up to a true Dostoevsky confession , to repentance and acceptance of suffering , to ‘ a wonderful podvig ’ in Tikhon 's words , is one possibility among many . |
| 26 | The old soldiers used to sing a song about him called 'get up to the front Tom Brodie . ' |
| 27 | Under the new monthly system , the usage fee will be charged to your account on the first Friday of each month and will cover the period up to the preceding Sunday . |
| 28 | Every year , female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States . |
| 29 | I decided in the circumstances that the 35 US gallon model was hardly adequate for my purposes and traded up to the 55 US gallon model . |
| 30 | Coffee and a stroll up to the nearest AVIS and we were off to our next destination . |