Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 2 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 3 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'll have to go down in the fattening fields with the cows . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 6 | American banks will have to write down by a further 10–20% their medium- and long-term loans to Brazil and Argentina , increasing pressure on the second-quarter earnings of some of the big banks . |
| 7 | She had suggested that I should go and fill it , but there had been ice and snow outside , and darkness , and to reach the coal I should have to climb down into the concrete bunker . |
| 8 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 9 | The basis of support for this pattern of continued authoritarian government will become less localist , simply because of the size of the urban population , and because tribal identities will continue to break down in an urban environment . |