Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Moana we went down to Hokitika on the Coast , a town which now makes its living largely from the sale of bone and greenstone carving , of high quality and quite reasonable prices . |
| 2 | As guests sat down to lunch in the company 's magnificent dining room earlier this week , the fellow with his back to the window was asked if there was too much of a draught . |
| 3 | If so , you 'll have probably booked your place in a hall of residence , your grant will arrive on the first day of term , you 'll be ready to enjoy Freshers ' Fair and soon settle down to studies in the library . |
| 4 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 5 | ‘ It went down to Jim in the path lab . |
| 6 | B. The bridge at Norwich is the only one across the River Yare for 32 km down to Yarmouth on the coast . |
| 7 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 8 | It offloads transactions from the server down to systems on the LON . |
| 9 | Cos I went down to Colchester in the July , in the July . |
| 10 | Though he had enjoyed his little investigations and masquerades , his only real discovery was that Nigel Steen had tried to disguise the fact of driving down to Streatley on the night of Saturday 8th December . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , why did he go down to Streatley on the Saturday night , and make such a bloody secret of it ? ’ |
| 12 | A mile to the south-east of the summit another path leads down to Ennerdale along the side of Loft Beck . |
| 13 | This is fully tax relievable in the employer 's hands so the liability nets down to £3,393 for the employer . |
| 14 | yes , under the Building Society Protection Act , if the society fails , you 're protected up to twenty thousand , and you 'll get eighteen thousand back , there 's a ninety percent protection , provided they 're members of the Building Society Association , which all are , er virtually , even down to things like the Clay Cross and the Staffordshire Railway , they 're all members of the Building Society Association , so they 're all covered . |
| 15 | Catch a bus from the Lamb Inn down to Seaside for the shopping precincts . |
| 16 | It is no longer a steam locomotive but a fast diesel pulling a trail of red , white and blue carriages , an express that rumbles down to Ashqelon between the orchards and the sea . |
| 17 | By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body . |
| 18 | I 'm coming down to leeds for the Man City match in about 3 weeks time . |
| 19 | Every time the monostable output pulses low , transistor TR1 switches on and capacitor C2 loses a substantial amount of its charge via resistor R3 and down to 0V through the emitter of TR1 . |
| 20 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 21 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 22 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 23 | I know , when we used to down to London to the London Scout Gang Show . |
| 24 | Hazel did not come down to London for the weekend . |
| 25 | ‘ And the times for you getting down to London for the attack on Oliver , if you include the times you — or whoever — were seen in the toilets at Tottenham Court Road , are looking very tight ; there was a delay on all the flights from Edinburgh into Heathrow that day … makes it impossible , really . ’ |
| 26 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |
| 27 | And then down to Ivrigar on the second night . ’ |
| 28 | Thought we might go down to Grafton for the Old Boys ’ match against the first XI . |
| 29 | I dressed and shaved and went down to breakfast under the colonnade . |
| 30 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |