Example sentences of "[to-vb] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ But it 's time to sit down to breakfast . |
| 3 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | Corridors giving access to the flats in this half wrap around three sides of the silo and are extended as galleries , supported by timber beams and cast-iron columns , salvaged from the original internal structure , to enclose the atrium , which allows daylight to penetrate down to every floor of the building . |
| 7 | When the first handful of rice hit the water they did n't dart to the surface , but calmly waited for it to sink down to them . |
| 8 | Jenny poured forth a stream of ‘ brilliants ’ ’ and said she was going to drive down to Harwich that evening . |
| 9 | She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van . |
| 10 | Every time I could get away I used to drive down to New York , where I 'm originally from , and go to the Paradise Garage . ’ |
| 11 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 12 | She had told him she was unlikely to be in Town again in the foreseeable future , and was sure he was far too busy to have time to drive down to Sussex . |
| 13 | In July 1950 he asked her to drive down to Cambridgeshire and collect his son from boarding school . |
| 14 | There was no time to think about it , because I had to pick Toby up at ten o'clock — at the crack of dawn , as he put it — to drive down to the Supersight factory . |
| 15 | Curzon was more difficult to drive down to the provinces . |
| 16 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 17 | I sha n't see you again — I 'm leaving in a few moments to drive down to Kildare . |
| 18 | So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water . |
| 19 | Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps , pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room . |
| 20 | Well , all those things had gone in the parcels , parcels that Kathleen had been obliged to carry down to the post office in five separate journeys , parcels that were heavy and had cost altogether two pounds four shillings to send . |
| 21 | He somehow managed to pound down to Kouklia on Chennaa , half by night and half by blazing day , and crossing the island was able to see for himself that it had been a more settled and prosperous year . |
| 22 | This allowed the filter to slide down to the bottom submerging the trickle filter section . |
| 23 | After seven hours of rock hopping and scree climbing we were glad to slide down to the mist-covered mountain lake to pitch our tent . |
| 24 | Look sharpish , and there 'll still be time to whip down to Rose Morris in London 's Denmark Street on Wednesday Nov 18th to catch an Ovation clinic featuring one of the UK 's best-known sessioneers Ian Aitken . |
| 25 | The easiest way of solving that problem was to go down to Victoria station . |
| 26 | It turned out that he had locked himself out of his room which was likely to be embarrassing as I , for one , was not about to go down to reception for a key for him . |
| 27 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 28 | He was then required to go down to the ranges to practise shooting with the 9 mm pistol . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go down to Mrs Wright 's now and get to the bottom of this , ’ said his Dad as Philip went upstairs . |
| 30 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |