Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] down to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short flight of stone steps led down to the entrance . |
| 2 | His eyes flickered down to the gondola . |
| 3 | The reporter 's eyes flickered down to the floor . |
| 4 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 5 | To the east , well fenced and warning hung , a sheer drop of two hundred feet fell down to the golf course . |
| 6 | Chelmsford Auctions v. Poole involved the sale of a car which the auctioneers knocked down to the purchaser for £57 . |
| 7 | He found the stews around the riverside as busy as an overturned ant heap in summer as boatmen , sailors and fishermen flocked down to the river bank to watch the ice thaw . |
| 8 | The shops were closing and there was that burst of activity before things settled down to the evening calm . |
| 9 | In another , stalactites reached down to the floor and they walked through a forest of pillars . |
| 10 | Just then two big wild cats came down to the shore from the mountains . |
| 11 | The two girls went down to the village that morning to secure a piece of board and some paint . |
| 12 | Streams wound down to the shore , murmuring . |
| 13 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 14 | The three children went down to the station at the right time , dressed in their best clothes , and the Station Master came to meet them . |
| 15 | A few white houses lined the road , and fields stretched down to the shore . |
| 16 | Women came down to the river in groups to wash clothes and pots . |
| 17 | She groaned aloud in pleasure when his kisses continued down to the swell of her bosom . |
| 18 | Before the IUD could do its work conception must already have taken place , egg and sperm having fused in a fallopian , and the multiplying cells travelled down to the womb to seek a place of anchorage , a home which the alpha-shaped loop by its very presence denied them , causing the minute beginnings of an embryo to swim in vain and ultimately be shed . |