Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] down to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't tell me Henry did n't plan Stephen 's dash for the throne down to the last detail , because I 'll never believe it . |
| 2 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 3 | The ideal organization and the one which has the best chance of success is one where , if you ask anybody from the chairman down to the newest recruit on the shop floor what that business is trying to do , you 'd get the same answer . |
| 4 | Barney gave in to her pleas , and agreed to transport the canoe down to the Little Avon river on the roof-rack of the Armstrong after lunch . |
| 5 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 6 | At his consecration , he had promised to maintain Canterbury 's rights of every kind , from the primacy down to the smallest knight 's fee , and we have seen that in Rufus 's reign he allowed many , as we might think , greater matters to lie dormant while he fought for Canterbury 's rights . |
| 7 | Examining the Bible down to the last letter |
| 8 | Here it was binding as covering the period down to the early part of 1945 , and as from that time full rent is payable . |
| 9 | He tap-loaded the next cartridge , not bothering to use the cumbersome ramrod , but just slamming the rifle 's butt hard on the ground in hope that the blow would jar the ball down to the loose charge . |
| 10 | After a while , though , she pulled herself together and , leaving one copy on her desk , took the other down to the secretarial room and asked if someone could run her off two more copies , ideally before the board meeting . |
| 11 | They took the escalator down to the lower level and the Grillapolis café . |
| 12 | Take the escalator down to the lower level . |
| 13 | He would say ‘ Goodnight all ’ ( although she would be the only other person in the room ) , and then he would take the lift down to the chilly autumn street and Blackfriars station , all soot and sickly neon . |
| 14 | By this time every gentleman knew what was expected of him : Cameron never dismounted , he leaned from the saddle and passed the paper down to the angry , helpless proprietor and took it back signed . |
| 15 | However , if the receiver continues to bleep in its working position on the ground , and no ferret has been located in the hole being dug , it can be advisable to turn the volume down to the lowest . |
| 16 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 17 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
| 18 | Without such a condition the auctioneer is under an obligation to knock the property down to the highest bidder , which could be a financial tragedy for the seller ( and for you , in the shape of an action for negligence ) if the highest bid was below its fair market value . |
| 19 | I stopped long enough to recharge , then pedalled up the Arrow Valley , crossed a ridge of hills and then freewheeled all the way down to the largest second hand bookshop in the world at Hay-on-Wye . |
| 20 | Not just a religious movement , but something that involves and enmeshes every area of life , from high national , and international politics , right the way down to the very colour of the , of the latest fashions , the new age movement and sometime in the future we 're gon na lo , talk a little bit about that . |
| 21 | The lane ran between high banks all the way down to the big road — and the railway . |
| 22 | Turn the buckram down to the wrong side on the marked top edge of the curtain and tack it in place . |
| 23 | They landed on the roof of the Club Eleusis building and took the elevator down to the third floor . |
| 24 | Every member of a household down to the youngest child will be eligible for perks , whereas for British Telecom and British Gas they were limited to one set per metered outlet . |
| 25 | But anyway , this is a very amusing film , but , but the idea of mission control is the concept of the ego , where it is portrayed in a very amusing way in this film by Woody Allen , that the consciousness , Woody Allen 's consciousness , is portrayed as mission control at Houston erm and er erm it , that particular scene ends with er when er control erm mission control sends a message down to the lower parts of the body , I wo n't mention which , says we 're going around again boys , and they think oh my God they 're very amusing . |
| 26 | From here , a turn down to the left leads to High Birkwith and then two miles of uneventful tarmac , heading south to the starting point of the walk at Horton . |
| 27 | And that meant taking a trip down to the lower end of the Bayswater Road . |
| 28 | , Well done , he 's right , no you were n't , I was just calling an order down to the lower basement . |