Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 2 | They could go down to the Sain Caernarfon League . |
| 3 | John ran his float down to the inside stantion of the old railway bridge . |
| 4 | Mary smiled as she negotiated the three awkward steps down to the sunken floor of the huge kitchen . |
| 5 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 6 | I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip . |
| 7 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 8 | He opened the door of a big airy room with views down to the great river itself . |
| 9 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 10 | Are you coming down to the great burrow ? " |
| 11 | Sir John bellowed back , and continued up the wide thoroughfare , past a group of nightbirds , whores and petty felons now manacled together and being led down to the great iron cage on top of the Conduit . |
| 12 | I went to change money , then strolled down to the small port to talk to the boat owners about getting to Amantani . |
| 13 | Now Michael has lured Alfred down to the small theatre that he runs . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | From Harrop Tarn the packhorse route leads on to Blea Tarn ( 1.5 miles ) and then down to the small hamlet of Watendlath ( 2 miles ) , situated at the end of a narrow valley next to a small tarn . |
| 16 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 17 | The vineyards of Bergères-les-Vertus are largely an extension of the lower slopes of Vertus reaching down to the southern tip of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 18 | ‘ This maritime centre was known to be the cradle of all the cultures and kingdoms that gradually grew down to the southern tip of India and eastwards to Java and other distant lands . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Today 's formulas are far more sophisticated , right down to the perfect brush design . |
| 21 | Mrs Knelle 's garden — or perhaps I should say ‘ grounds ’ — meandered gently down to the narrow lakeside road . |
| 22 | He passed under the rock where Ellwood was sitting and went down to the narrow spit where he always stood to fish . |
| 23 | I fingered heavy silver and amber necklaces with starting prices of £200 but I did not have the patience or the energy to haggle down to the real price . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're getting down to the real stuff — mosaics , some wall plaster , animal bones and there are signs of a hypocaust . ’ |
| 25 | The objective is to and something to share before getting down to the real business . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry to keep you waiting , ’ he went on , ‘ but those of you who have been here before will know that I like to say a few words to break the ice before we get down to the real business of the weekend . |
| 27 | From the North Sea and Baltic coasts through the North German Plain and down to the Black Forest and Alps , Germany has a wealth of contrasting scenic beauty . |
| 28 | In spite of our interest in island life , and all our new experiences there , my wife had never really settled down to the complete contrast in living conditions . |
| 29 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |
| 30 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |