Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] down to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it too manages to find its way down to southern Africa . |
| 2 | A parent company can surrender its ACT down to one or more 51% subsidiaries . |
| 3 | Eventually the SIB narrowed their investigations down to two electricians with pocket knives , Larry and one other . |
| 4 | This she did , knocking her ball down to that stretch of fairway fronting the green before chipping to 2 feet and making off with a par . |
| 5 | Although the virtually monosyllabic Palance is at the receiving end of much of Crystal 's sophisticated comic patter , the Marlboro Man is the real philosophical hero of the place , a creature who has honed his life down to one simple idea . |
| 6 | If the hon. Gentleman looks at what has happened in Europe in the past decade — in France , Belgium , Denmark , Sweden and Italy — he will see that all those countries have devolved their powers down to regional authorities . |
| 7 | Both he and Eadmer had written their Histories down to 1120 without mentioning these texts , and it was only from the Canterbury monks that William of Malmesbury now learnt that these were the texts quoted by Lanfranc fifty years earlier . |
| 8 | By lunchtime he had narrowed his search down to three out of the dozens of girls missing in the London area . |
| 9 | But prolonged recession and high unemployment knocked his popularity down to rock-bottom . |
| 10 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 11 | To avoid attracting unwelcome attention Jim kept his speed down to 75 m.p.h. , less than half the Jaguar 's maximum . |
| 12 | He had won the Dewhurst Stakes by six lengths as a two-year-old but had been a 33–1 chance for the Derby in the spring of 1953 until an impressive victory in the Newmarket Stakes brought his odds down to 8–1 . |
| 13 | But then she did n't usually sleep so soundly out of doors , and she put her reactions down to recent stress . |
| 14 | Helping these children to adapt to their environment is therefore important , and putting their symptoms down to poor mothering , without any evidence , is irresponsible and potentially damaging . |
| 15 | See , for instance , how the expensive Floyd Rose tremolo systems have worked their way down to cheaper guitars . |
| 16 | A week later he wrote to apologise to all six , putting his behaviour down to nervous exhaustion . |
| 17 | Using the golfing tips he gleaned from such fine players , Andy soon had his handicap down to two . |
| 18 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 19 | However , it is a good discipline to bring your negotiations down to concise statements so that both have the same expectations . |