Example sentences of "[vb base] 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 | According to the book of legends you have just shown us , Arthur came here to drink from the Grail , whilst one of his knights , Sir Bedivere , reputedly took Excalibur down to Narepool which is only three miles from Glastonbury . |
| 14 | As they trace their lazy parabolas back down to earth , these bits twist around slowly , over and over , until they hit the ground with a flop or a flump , splodging out to form round , flattish masses . |
| 15 | An associated space-camera relays the data back down to Earth . |
| 16 | The riddle of the up-and-down interest rates — back down to 10 per cent yesterday . |
| 17 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 18 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 19 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 20 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 21 | To maintain high gain down to zero frequency , the amplifier is directly coupled and to overcome the resulting problem of distinguishing between real and pseudo signals , due to , for example , bias or thermal variations , differential circuit techniques are adopted . |
| 22 | I did , however , manage to get the doctors and dentists award down to 6 per cent . |
| 23 | Kneel down to one side of your partner ( or stand if you are using a massage couch ) . |
| 24 | The ailerons droop down to fifteen degrees with the flaps to form full-span trailing-edge high-lift devices . |
| 25 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 26 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
| 27 | Light fittings : Remove covers , tubes or bulbs and bring down to ground level unless an access platform is used . |
| 28 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 29 | The down side has included a touch of envy from rivals determined to bring the Barcelona champion down to earth . |
| 30 | You can start with a cocktail at the Waikiki fun pub , relax in the New Pacha bar , slip down to ‘ Snobs ’ or ‘ Gigalo 's ’ for a dance , and you 've still not even scratched the surface of the place . |