Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 2 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 4 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 5 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 6 | Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes . |
| 7 | Schools should be able to request more frequent inspections so that the best practice of a few is not brought down to the standard practice of the many . |
| 8 | Colour Sergeant Skuse has already driven down to the Soviet Checkpoint , one kilometre away in East Germany , to warn the Russians that a British military convoy is expected to enter the city . |
| 9 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 10 | Sir John groaned as he eased his bulk up and sorrowfully waddled down to the aroma-filled kitchen . |
| 11 | Because the heart is the seat of all our emotions , affections and willpower , this means that the impact of being blessed by God eventually reaches down to the very core of our persons . |
| 12 | The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively . |
| 13 | ‘ This maritime centre was known to be the cradle of all the cultures and kingdoms that gradually grew down to the southern tip of India and eastwards to Java and other distant lands . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm only gon na get it four foot deep with it anyway it would n't be four foot deep all over , it 'll start off at two foot and then slightly slope down to the deep part |
| 15 | Needless to say Jeffery , and many others , have had little difficulty in showing how all such attempts have inevitably boiled down to the arbitrary moral predilections of the criminologists concerned . |
| 16 | But I mean , one of the major problems is a fact , these youth training programmes or Y , YP 's as they call them , are alright but they 're not really getting down to the basic er training we need ! |
| 17 | In spite of our interest in island life , and all our new experiences there , my wife had never really settled down to the complete contrast in living conditions . |
| 18 | He says Berliners are now counting down to the historic moment . |
| 19 | The senior manager may be unable to cope with his or her own work either and so much of the overflow simply drifts down to the next level . |
| 20 | These flows were relatively small and they did n't get down to the lower , inhabited parts of the mountain . |
| 21 | It is perhaps significant , in this opening paragraph , that the sentences move to a peak of length in sentence ( 4 ) , and thence slope down to the final brevity of ( 7 ) . |
| 22 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 23 | I went to change money , then strolled down to the small port to talk to the boat owners about getting to Amantani . |
| 24 | Subsequently , the collars were fully turned down to the conventional collar of today , while the cravats were transformed into bow-ties . |
| 25 | Whether time permits or not , a detour should be made along the A.881 from Broadford to its terminus at Elgol , there going down to the colourful beach of pebbles and wild flowers and low cliffs : a beautiful foreground to a classic view , the finest in Britain , of the Black Cuillin across the wide waters of Loch Scavaig , a picture that would defeat a Constable or a Turner . |
| 26 | Wires from this tag strip then go down to the main p.c.b . |
| 27 | Delaney stepped into the wheelhouse , his eyes taking in the smashed console , then dropping down to the grisly , earthly remains of Grant . |
| 28 | Apricot waited until her exams were over and then went down to the Catholic church and hung about until she met Bernard coming out of confession . |
| 29 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 30 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |