Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can we nip down to the catering suppliers at lunchtime and get a decent machine ? |
| 2 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 3 | The back of this house looked over a lawn full of chestnuts and beech , through an avenue of espaliered pears next to a Beatrix Potter asparagus patch , down to the water meadows of the Avon . |
| 4 | When the dun evening comes the kids go down to the irrigation channels for some bilharzia bathing . |
| 5 | Springy , sheep-cropped turf , crisscrossed with dry stone walls , ran down to the back yards of the houses . |
| 6 | The railway line , the dual-carriageway bridging over it to a roundabout , the minor road leading down to the railway sidings of the industrial estate , are particularly distinctive . |
| 7 | The moon threatens to come out from behind the clouds again and I have to jump down to the paving stones of the patio beneath . |
| 8 | Whether purring along to the chatter rhythms of ‘ Kiss And Make Up ’ or merely blowing away her fringe , eyes struck heavenward , she 's an instant star in a country that patented the idea of reckless innocence , from Jane Birkin to Vanessa Paradis . |
| 9 | ‘ I wonder how long it took for my message to get through to the patrol cars on the road , ’ Patrick said . |
| 10 | — SHILDON got four out of five boys through to the quarter finals of the national schools championships at Knottingley on Saturday . |
| 11 | ‘ Tipperary are already through to the knock-out stages of the league and ca n't be caught , but mindful of their pride and arrogance they wo n't be doing us too many favours . ’ |
| 12 | Now they find themselves pitched together again at Castleblayney this afternoon in a play-off to determine who makes it through to the quarter-final stages of the National League . |
| 13 | John , playing from Great Aycliffe , goes through to the area finals of the national championships to take on international Cliff Simpson ( Hartlepool ) on a neutral venue . |
| 14 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 15 | The puddings are unpacked in the morning , driven over to the hospital kitchens for steaming and collected in time for dinner . |
| 16 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 17 | Cardiff looked back over to the reception windows at Frye 's silhouette . |
| 18 | He was a baby-faced product of the concerned middle classes , born in Derby and whisked off to the Home Counties at an early age . |
| 19 | To get into this trade , the Company was reorganized in 1663 and added buying slaves and shipping them off to the sugar islands to its original objectives . |
| 20 | So it was off to the department stores of central London with a LASMO cheque to kit himself out with warm and waterproof clothes as a matter of some urgency . |
| 21 | Message-sending and letter-writing went on , and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station . |
| 22 | Our subscription rates are being held until the end of March , so for just £30 you 'll get : • a monthly mailing of regular publications which will brief you on all these issues and more • up to the minute briefings on government announcements • free copies of many of our one-off publications , such as our Short Guide to Poll Tax . |
| 23 | Before leaving Britain we 'd learnt that the hike up to Mount Kenya 's ‘ walkers summit ’ , Point Lenana , was not too demanding , and that the climbing route up to the twin summits of Batian and Nelion was graded mainly Diff , with a few patches of Severe , so we were n't expecting any technical problems . |
| 24 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 25 | Right up to the head waters of time , young men have always been those most inclined to commit crime . |
| 26 | Second in command , Paul Hancock , says they 'll be acting as back up to the Desert Rats at bases in the north-east of Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | Smaller practitioners are fed up to the back teeth with all forms of regulation , and audit regulation in particular . |
| 28 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 29 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 30 | In all these solutions the space-time can only be extended uniquely up to the fold singularities in regions II and III and the surface in region IV on which . |