Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dramatic new figure , they say , is all down to the magical properties of the Secrets body she 's seen wearing here . |
| 2 | Sources close to Bel say the tiny tot looks just like mom … right down to the dark sunglasses . |
| 3 | The bus wound its way through the ring of nineteenth-century villas on the upper slopes and the post-war apartments below them , down to the modern blocks and towers on the flat land around the station , where it pulled up . |
| 4 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 5 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 6 | Seton and Ramsay hurried down to the outer walls and bastions above the harbour wharves and quays , where most of the castle cannon had been positioned , ordering the garrison troops to man the guns . |
| 7 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 8 | Getting down to the bare bones : There was nothing but a skeleton staff to assist him when Brian Chappill , marketing manager , Midlands West & Wales , handed over a Wimpey Construction UK cheque for £l , 000 to Linda Edwards of Bath-based charity the National Osteoporosis Society . |
| 9 | GRAHAM Taylor was down to the bare bones today when only 14 of his England squad took part in his first Bisham training session before next week 's critical World Cup clash against Poland . |
| 10 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 11 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 12 | So it pays to cut it down to the bare essentials — the minimum you feel is necessary . |
| 13 | Collectors of bank-notes in Argentina are apparently now able to collect ‘ swaps ’ , notes identical to others in every single detail , even down to the serial numbers . |
| 14 | He tucked the transfer document into his tunic , then hurried along the corridors , taking a crowded lift down to the living quarters in the heart of the great multi-stack fortress . |
| 15 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 16 | Spooning the garlic and ginger paste into the snapper and over their skin , he dropped the first three fish on to the grill and called down to the other Latinos to bring plates and cutlery from the galley . |
| 17 | Sometimes on their fronts , sometimes on their backs , sometimes half standing , they threw themselves down to the damp coils below . |
| 18 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 19 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 20 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 21 | The slope of a hill stretches down to the playing fields . |
| 22 | Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes . |
| 23 | ‘ I only realised he was any good when he was 13 and went down to the English schools Under-14 championships at Queens one Monday . |
| 24 | In the street outside the hotel , a crowd cheered and cheered ; periodically someone would go on to the balcony and throw roses down to the assembled admirers . |
| 25 | Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey . |
| 26 | From here , a turn down to the left leads to High Birkwith and then two miles of uneventful tarmac , heading south to the starting point of the walk at Horton . |
| 27 | Meantime , we 'll be getting down to the fine details . ’ |
| 28 | The train chugged down to the mountain-ringed plains where sheep and alpaca were herded by bowler-hatted women . |
| 29 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 30 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |