Example sentences of "down to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jabbed a finger towards Dick ‘ Nobody can get down to 'im , neither , 'cos it 's all slippery loose stones . |
| 2 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 3 | You 've got to bring yourself down to their level . |
| 4 | Before getting down to their books they searched out a hollow straw and leaned flat across the spring to drink the water which was famed for its coldness . |
| 5 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 6 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 7 | Reeves puts their humour down to their upbringing in Darlington and Middlesbrough respectively . |
| 8 | Without realizing , Miss Harker stepped down to their level . |
| 9 | ‘ Yeltsin and Kravchuk are dragging us down to their level , and Admiral Chernavin just gives in , ’ he said , adding : ‘ I believe the military will seize power . ’ |
| 10 | Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps , pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room . |
| 11 | Every item of clothing , down to their underwear , is in designer day-glo and vibrant clashing tincture . |
| 12 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 13 | Here the marchers can drill up and down to their hearts ' content . |
| 14 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |
| 15 | The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business . |
| 16 | The walls the Romans built remained the basic structure of the city walls down to their final destruction in the late eighteenth century , save at two significant corners . |
| 17 | If they really want to dance , they ‘ hairv a dance ’ , which means Mummy and Daddy spend thousands of pounds on a marquee and all the trimmings , and their friends pile down to their place in the country and run amok in the rhododendrons . |
| 18 | Naked running was not unknown in the Dales and Pennines , where the locals would strip down to their shoes before leaping down the hills and fells . |
| 19 | PARENTS got down to their children 's level at an open evening held at Alton County Infants School last week . |
| 20 | The boys , the group I hung around with , had stinking matted hair down to their shoulders and wore decomposing school jackets , no ties , and flares . |
| 21 | Even those who slim right down to their goal weight will always find parts they wish were even slimmer ! |
| 22 | Price differentials within the European Community have driven our visible earnings down to their lowest figure since 1987 . |
| 23 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 24 | This proved to be only a minor diversion and they quickly settled down to their food and drink again . |
| 25 | The Wisharts were about to settle down to their reading when the corridor door slid open and an elderly lady eased her way into the compartment ; the newcomer was wearing a striking black silk dress and black hat which were very reminiscent of the Victorian age . |
| 26 | One of BRAC 's concerns at present is to see whether the lobon-gur solution has become part of the Bangladeshi culture , in so far as the mothers taught by BRAC 's Oral Therapy Replacement Workers might pass their knowledge down to their children . |
| 27 | ‘ We think much of England 's success is down to their strong front-row so , yes , we were pleased that Probyn was n't playing . |
| 28 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 29 | Every Tuesday , Lord and Lady Spencer would drive down to their house in Mayfair . |
| 30 | ‘ With a lot of the hard men in football it 's all down to their characters . |