Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the argument was refined in the course of the hearing , it emerged that the rival contentions came down to a narrow but difficult issue . |
| 2 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |
| 3 | I fish such a bait on a 14 hook , or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky . |
| 4 | For Labour supporters , 1931 was the election when the party went down to a cataclysmic and catastrophic defeat , betrayed by MacDonald and deserted by its working class supporters … |
| 5 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 6 | By the time they sat down to a light but elegant dinner , a warm rapport had grown between the two women . |
| 7 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 8 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 9 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 10 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 11 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 12 | Kalchu went down to the stable and selected a he-goat . |
| 13 | Just as the marine terrace represents the abandoned sea floor , so do river terraces represent valley floors abandoned by the rivers as they start to cut down to the new and lower base level . |
| 14 | It was also found that C-terminal flanking sequence down to the 127th or 165th amino acid residue slightly stimulated the activity of clone 1–110 . |
| 15 | They 'd finished their show and were coming back down to the damp and squalid cellar the management refused to redecorate because of its ‘ classic atmosphere ’ . |
| 16 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 18 | But in the end , at that last hour , it comes down to the 15 and everything we do is focused down on that last hour . ’ |
| 19 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 20 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 21 | Nor was she going to give in to the warm and leaping sensations being generated in her by the slow , rhythmic stroking of his fingers . |
| 22 | By then you will have become tuned in to the driving and will be better able to judge if it is safe to go a little faster . |
| 23 | In the matter of level , these needs range from the relatively simple requirements of undergraduate students , through to the wide and unpredictable needs of researchers and faculty . |
| 24 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 25 | I accompanied her during house visits , at day and night , during surgery , and various other sessions with ages ranging from the newborn right through to the elderly and retired . |
| 26 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 27 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 28 | Ritchie 's Eighth Army had gone over to the offensive and Rommel was in retreat towards Agheila . |
| 29 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |
| 30 | over to the right or left ? |