Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 2 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 3 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 4 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you 're not tied down to a commitment of any sort , ’ she pointed out in a dry tone . |
| 6 | Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ? |
| 7 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 8 | The theoretical difference between the categories may well come down to a question of the burden of proof , though in practice a party seeking to uphold the validity of the restrictive covenant — usually the employer — has to make all the running . |
| 9 | On the evidence of what was seen at Goodison Park , neither side has any outstanding strengths or glaring weaknesses and the whole puzzling equation simply comes down to a matter of confidence . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 11 | In a direct boiler system , the copper hot water cylinder ( or , in older installations , galvanised hot water tank ) is supplied with water from the cold water storage cistern ; the water then passes down to a heating boiler , back boiler ( behind a fire ) or gas circulator to be heated before returning to the hot water cylinder . |
| 12 | The match then settled down to a midfield battle , with neither side risking any mistakes . |
| 13 | That 's been on a real high and then gone down to a low to nothing . |
| 14 | More and more after these scenes he felt worn out , drained — as if his life were being slowly refined down to a point . |
| 15 | Now loan redemption is a matter for the Government to decide ( at least as to minima ) , and presumably comes down to a judgement about how much the Government thinks that local authorities as a whole can afford to redeem in any year . |
| 16 | Another trick that I have learnt is for increasing the likelihood that I will actually get down to a job which is becoming urgent but which I do n't want to do . |
| 17 | Her parents were a benign though distant presence and it was n't until Charles was seven that he actually sat down to a meal with his father in the downstairs dining-room . |