Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
2 | Wherever she went she carried her bag with her personal belongings down to every last rag . |
3 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
4 | A nail-biter that will have you chewing down to the second knuckle . |
5 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
6 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
7 | This one is useful for moving from the 5th position down to the 2nd position in A minor . |
8 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |
9 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
10 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
11 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
12 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
13 | I do n't believe in wasting time , so if Fran is free for lunch I shall take her out and we can get down to the first lesson . ’ |
14 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
15 | These are obvious cases because the forms are linguistically or stylistically related , and in one of them it will be shown later that the name became hereditary — as Forsey — down to the twentieth century . |
16 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
17 | Each person transmits culture down to the next generation and out through his or her network of relationships . |
18 | That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation . |
19 | Admittedly , gifts during life will be taxed less heavily than bequests , provided that the donor survives the gift by four years , but even so it will be almost impossible for a thriving business or a farm of economic size to be handed down to the next generation . |
20 | The senior manager may be unable to cope with his or her own work either and so much of the overflow simply drifts down to the next level . |
21 | We 'll go down to the next floor . |
22 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
23 | She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny . |
24 | Going down to the next layer , each of these moves consists of specified acts , as in Figure 6 . |
25 | ‘ I will have a few casts here , Blair , then follow you down to the next pool , ’ I suggested . |
26 | The flight was only about ten steps down to the next landing , and though he felt bruised all over , and shocked , nothing seemed to be broken . |
27 | So that they float down to the next district and you do n't have to report them ? ’ |
28 | So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’ |
29 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
30 | They landed on the roof of the Club Eleusis building and took the elevator down to the third floor . |