Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] down to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only put it down to the strong classical emphasis which prevails in the courses offered in the UK , although many of the university drama courses in the USA do stage Shakespeare and the European classical authors . |
| 2 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 3 | So taken it down to the tills at the front , cos they move quicker |
| 4 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 5 | Tell you what erm when we get into you can just drop me down to the greengrocer near the church because I 'm out of erm spring onions and if I wanted to add up to that bit of salad that we 've got |
| 6 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 7 | The strange , wild feeling that usually drove her down to the sea was beginning to thump in her bosom . |
| 8 | No , because er I always put it down to the fact that most of our takings were in coin , it was very seldom that you had a pound note , you possibly had a ten pound note in those days but most of it was coinage and the cash when it was married up , was put into steel bound wooden boxes . |
| 9 | I 'd always put it down to the studio lights . |
| 10 | ‘ A three piece really boils it down to the core , ’ muses Bob . |
| 11 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 12 | He even took him down to the cellars to see the lights and the point for a plug there . |
| 13 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 14 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 15 | ‘ I will have a few casts here , Blair , then follow you down to the next pool , ’ I suggested . |