Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] down to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 about five grand at one stage and got it down to three and half , and then he got to six hundred and eighty and they went to court
2 Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension .
3 By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’
4 She had promoted herself into the film 's second editor , and slowed it down to normal at the bits she liked , and thought we would appreciate .
5 And turn it down to two .
6 The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter .
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