Example sentences of "[verb] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 2 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 3 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 4 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 5 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 6 | I feed her and get her washed and undressed and ready for bed and then these two sit down to tea . |
| 7 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 8 | After the working day they sit down to supper and the master sets the tasks for the morrow : Quoth Maister — Lads , work hard I pray , Cloth mun be peark 'd next market-day , And Tom mun go tomorn to t'spinners , And Will mun seek about for t'swingers ; And Jack tomorn , by time be rising , And go t'sizing mill for sizing , And get your web and warping done That ye may get it into loom . |
| 9 | He offers no explanation , as they sit down to dinner , and Anne and Millie talk about other things . |
| 10 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
| 11 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 12 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 13 | You could never be absolutely sure , Jasper thought , that up there in the tunnel roof there would n't be some great iron bar or post sticking down to within an inch or two of the top of the car . |
| 14 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 15 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 16 | ‘ But it 's time to sit down to breakfast . |
| 17 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't ask to sit down to dinner with them , I did n't ask to be ridiculed and insulted by dear , delightful Melissa ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I thought what we were worrying about was a roof over your head , ’ I said , feeling that Aunt Louise needed bringing down to earth . |
| 21 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 22 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 23 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 24 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 25 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 26 | Just got down to it . ’ |
| 27 | Once you got down to Question 11 , the questioner would get a deeply unhelpful written response which would , if the civil servants knew their business , leave no one any the wiser . |
| 28 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 29 | Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation . |
| 30 | Mr Tillingham got down to churchy business , the funeral would take place at three in the afternoon … |