Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could go down to the Sain Caernarfon League . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thomas rose and beckoned Corbett over to one of the arrow-slit windows and pointed down to the winding River Lauder . |
| 5 | Lewis pointed down to the fast-flowing Cherwell . |
| 6 | Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ties in to the seven-part BBC series , |
| 9 | Soon we went in to the adjacent Marie Antoinette Room for luncheon . |
| 10 | Doddy is dropping in to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to open the refurbished Women 's Royal Voluntary Service tea bar . |
| 11 | RECRUITS were bused in to the strike-hit Timex factory in Dundee yesterday , replacements for some of the 300 workers sacked during the dispute . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Trying to avoid gazing at the grisly sight , the Leutnant sidled over to the statuesque Karnstein , and handed the envelope to her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | In the evening it was off to the Scottish Crofters Union Annual Dinner . |
| 20 | The old soldiers used to sing a song about him called 'get up to the front Tom Brodie . ' |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Every year , female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States . |
| 23 | From here you can find fish to suit all sorts of personal taste , from the tiny Otocinclus vestutus up to the mighty Red-Tail , Phractocephalus hemioliopterus . |
| 24 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 25 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 26 | Coun Cummings is receiving rehabilitation therapy at Clatterbridge Hospital and on Monday he will travel for a check up to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London , where the bypass surgery was carried out . |
| 27 | He faced up to the notorious Chelsea Boot Boys with an electrified fence but was refused permission to switch it on . |
| 28 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 29 | To the Edinburgh , at least the Scotland passengers , to Carstairs to connect up to the main Glasgow Central to Liverpool , Birmingham and there were all these places . |
| 30 | Playing one of his few games in goal for Scotland , the Perth-born keeper , rolled the ball out to the experienced Manchester City fullback Willie Donachie ; with a shot of slide-rule perfection , Donachie lobbed the stranded Blyth , scoring a perfect own goal which gave Wales a fortunate draw . |