Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 2 | After lunch they all trooped back down to the beach with plastic bags and jars for specimens , and Carolyn lagged behind . |
| 3 | A bath chair had been wheeled down to the shelter with the broken windows , and the man in charge of-it had propped it outside and was walking away . |
| 4 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |
| 6 | ‘ Come down to the bar with me , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
| 8 | The book very quickly gets down to the paddling with a token section at the source of the river . |
| 9 | She came to stand close and he took her hand , pulling her down to the settee with him . |
| 10 | If I 'm going down to the pub with my mates , I will probably just wear jeans but , again , I 'll wear a nice shirt and smart shoes . |
| 11 | For a moment Henry thought she was going to hit him , and then , instead , she seized the receiver from him and , sweeping it down to the floor with her she poured love , support , tenderness and quietness down the line . |
| 12 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 13 | Some nights , me and Sarah went down to the ocean with a few flasks |
| 14 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 15 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 16 | On such a morning , I remember dressing in a freezing bedroom , then coming down to the kitchen with its brightly flaming coal fire , dad having been up much earlier to coax the sleeping embers to life . |
| 17 | My combat jacket , knife , bags , catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me . |
| 18 | The bulk of the houses were grouped around the Church , along what is now the High St. and extended from the Plough to Hall House ( or Bourne 's ) , then from there in a line down to the river with Halling House or the Old Palace prominent by the Church . |
| 19 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 20 | He wanted her to go down to the river with him . |
| 21 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 22 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 23 | Going on down to the house with a posy of cowslips , she was aware of that rare feeling of happiness that comes with youth and the first stirrings of love . |
| 24 | I know I do I forgot to take one down to the place with me I checked the then that , now we go |
| 25 | There are now nine regional councils ( ranging from Strathclyde with 2.3m inhabitants down to the Borders with 101,000 ) and fifty-three district councils ( ranging from 744,000 in Glasgow to 10,000 in Badenoch and Strathspey ) . |
| 26 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 27 | We 'll need another two or three days here , but I have to go down to the mortuary with the body . |
| 28 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |
| 29 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 30 | Coming down to the wire with FileNet imaging , WorkFlo products |