Example sentences of "[verb] be down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 2 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 3 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 4 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 5 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 6 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 7 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |