Example sentences of "[verb] down to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 2 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 3 | The rain softened the surface and showed the imprint of their short stay as they swooped down to the mirage of what had been their habitat . |
| 4 | Steps led down to the banks of the river , and from the water 's edge , the ruins of the castle dominated the skyline . |
| 5 | Tiny fields , green and white where the snow was melting again , led down to the outskirts of the town . |
| 6 | At dawn on the morning of his twelfth birthday — in the official court annals his thirteenth , for they accorded with ancient Han tradition in calling the day of the child 's birth its first ‘ birth day ’ — Li Yuan was woken by his father and , when he was dressed in the proper clothes , led down to the stables of the Tongjiang estate . |
| 7 | This gave him a view up one of the sidestreets which led down to the corner of the square . |
| 8 | Blood had initially drained down to the back of the neck , thighs and mid-back . ’ |
| 9 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 10 | And he 'd got round the corner , ready to go down to the rest of the stairs which went down , and then at the bottom turned round the corner again . |
| 11 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 12 | Mick Jagger put on a charming little Greek skirt and gave a free performance to thousands in London 's Hyde Park , while Bob Dylan headed down to the Isle of Wight for a three-day festival of dope , sex and rock ‘ n ’ roll attended by 150,000 fans . |
| 13 | The situation was made worse by the fact that the officers who had originally been blocking Simpson 's Brae moved down to the rear of the march and then , unaware that their colleagues were dispersing the head of the demonstration , were confronted by protesters running towards them . |
| 14 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 15 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 16 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 17 | Nick wandered down to the end of the garden . |
| 18 | A silver and tawny tree creeper spiralled up a tree trunk , probing for beetle larvae with its long thin bill ; it dropped down to the roots of the next tree — and edged its way up once more . |
| 19 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 20 | There is a huge sign here below the Allt Coire Giubhsachan , a steep , slabby waterfall cascading down to the edge of the car park , that yells , ‘ WARNING ! |
| 21 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 22 | Having got to the top , it flutters down to the base of another tree and starts all over again . |
| 23 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 24 | They came down to the verge of the lake , and drank and drank . |
| 25 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 26 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |
| 27 | When he tried to upstage her she sauntered down to the front of the stage and such was her control over the audience now , he had to back off , otherwise it would have been he who looked ridiculous . |
| 28 | So Lewis drove down to the bottom of South Parks Road , where he was ushered through into the University Parks by a policeman on duty at the entrance to the single-track road which led down to the bathing area . |
| 29 | From the history of man in general we focus down to the story of a single individual , Abraham , and his descendants . |
| 30 | It would last , they knew , about half an hour — until the single joss stick planted in a bowl of white rice on the altar burned down to the level of the cereal . |