Example sentences of "[been] [verb] down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | A bath chair had been wheeled down to the shelter with the broken windows , and the man in charge of-it had propped it outside and was walking away . |
| 3 | Much of the credit for Mansell 's success has been put down to the sophistication and reliability of the Didcot developed Williams car . |
| 4 | The snow had drifted deep over the path that has been carved down to the chasm and we soon lost it , progressing by kicking steps into the hard snow . |
| 5 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |