Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] down to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much more glorious surprise was achieved on Fylde Flyer by Piggott after he and the rest of the Abernant Stakes field had been kept waiting in a cold , damp wind while Snaadee took his own unconscionable time about wandering down to the start . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 3 | He cites the Chinese gesture of bowing down to the ground nine times before an emperor . |
| 4 | But she made a point of going down to the jetty one day to tell him , ‘ I 'm really glad you found your boat . ’ |
| 5 | Now when you went in you were carrying out a plan with you very close behind going down to the bedroom . |
| 6 | ‘ We guessed , ’ said Faye , ‘ when you were more concerned about getting down to the blood bank than about thrashing through my prognosis with Dr Greene . ’ |
| 7 | Right erm regarding being a Lancastrian I think the er the main for coming down to the south is probably where you are today , I mean , cricket is the great game that we all follow here |
| 8 | ‘ I think so , because I checked the door later before going down to the village , and it was locked then , and the key was in my purse . ’ |
| 9 | Benjamin insisted that we shave , wash and change our linen and doublets before going down to the hall . |
| 10 | As soon as he was able , Lucien began to exercise every day before going down to the refectory for breakfast with Ketura and Sydel . |
| 11 | Smith said that some of the reporters had been drinking before getting down to the job of covering the fight ; Hearn is considering litigation . |
| 12 | Having defined the size of the board the next stage is to consider the circuit and the components themselves , before getting down to the job of designing the copper track pattern itself . |
| 13 | Anyone who has difficulty in getting down to the floor and up is safer exercising on a firm mattress . |
| 14 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 15 | This time we planned to take in two other Munros on the northern ridge of the corrie , Carn Liath and Stob Poite Coire Ardair , before dropping down to the window and back up on to Creag Meagaidh 's vast plateau . |
| 16 | He grabs the top edge with his hands , thumps the face of the buttress several times with his feet and then does the same thing on the other side of the buttress with his hands before springing down to the ground . |
| 17 | Cats do often pause after catching their prey and momentarily release what they imagine is a corpse before settling down to the business of eating it . |
| 18 | Even quite large grain gravel has not prevented this female C. trimaculatum from clearing down to the gravel tidy . |
| 19 | For the purpose of such measurements a layer of distinctive sand is put down on the marsh and the amount of accretion after a period of years measured by cutting down to the patch of sand with a tool sharp enough not to disturb the section . |