Example sentences of "down to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 2 | Her central happiness irradiated the rest of her life , from important happenings , down to her mood when she was doing trivial things . |
| 3 | The front was slashed all the way down to her navel to reveal rounded breasts , which rose and fell temptingly like a couple of ripe peaches . |
| 4 | He saw Rosie stretch up , catch the damp pants between her teeth and slowly draw them down to her grimy sacking , intent on ripping them to shreds . |
| 5 | As she will be maintaining all her twenty-six goals on a permanent basis , the low sugar intake should help her considerably in getting down to her final goal weight for the end of the year . |
| 6 | She dropped the parcel and , pulling the welt of her jumper down to her hips , strode to the door . |
| 7 | Catherine settled down to her studies and is now beginning a university degree . |
| 8 | Her dark hair , cleverly cut and more frequently combed , was soft and glossy , sat tidily , was very faintly curling , flowing abundantly down to her shoulders . |
| 9 | Pepita bent back down to her work and checked off another crate of bananas that would be shipped to lands she had never seen and would never see . |
| 10 | She hauled me down to her lair to find out . |
| 11 | Nutty asked her , sitting down to her shepherd 's pie , cabbage and chips . |
| 12 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 13 | She radioed down to her senior keeper who called the vet . |
| 14 | Funded partly by the RSPCA but not by pig producers , it is built around the idea of allowing a sow to do what comes naturally when she settles down to her accouchement . |
| 15 | Taking it down to her cellars she cut holes in its surface to accommodate the inverted bottles of Champagne . |
| 16 | She survived unscathed , which she put down to her ability to be assertive . |
| 17 | Lesley says : ‘ She used to have hair all the way down to her waist . |
| 18 | For Lili , whose skin was nearly as white as Adam Verne-Smith 's , was more Indian than true Indians , wore the sari , grew her curly brown Austrian hair down to her waist and took language lessons from a Bengali neighbour of theirs . |
| 19 | She had wisps of grey hair poking out from under a black lace bonnet and wore a long black lace dress down to her feet . |
| 20 | He would start with her shoulders and move down to her hips , and no amount of disdain seemed to get through to him . |
| 21 | I suggest that she does as I have done , pops down to her local computer shop and purchases an anti-static bracelet and strap . |
| 22 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 23 | ‘ Give me that , ’ said Tabitha , snatching the melon from Saskia , who was balancing it on her arm , rolling it slowly from her shoulder down to her wrist and back again . |
| 24 | The single ‘ Teethgrinder ’ was born out of a programme called American Conversations , which in one episode dealt with a girl who ground her teeth down to her gums in her sleep , while ‘ Nurse ’ also features ‘ Accelerator ’ , the tale of a joyrider which was written after seeing a police chase in Manchester — and later recalled images from the film The Driver . |
| 25 | Usually her blonde hair stretched down to her elbows but on that evening she wore it up , tied with a black ribbon . |
| 26 | ‘ Now it 's you that 's 'aving me on , ’ said the landlady , and went down to her kitchen with a smile . |
| 27 | 44–22650 is complete down to her engines and is now displayed inside the Museum 's giant buildings . |
| 28 | As the bus came to a halt in Woodborough bus station , Laura slid open the window and lowered her string bag down to her son-in-law . |
| 29 | What could she possibly say to a beauty with thick hair down to her waist , wearing bright clothes , and gold bracelets up her arm ? |
| 30 | She had tawny blonde hair down to her shoulders and a rather thin face with high cheekbones and a wide mouth . |