Example sentences of "[vb past] down to a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 2 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 3 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 4 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 5 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 6 | They settled down to a discussion of their problems , and the work they had in front of them . |
| 7 | Following this resolution the delegates settled down to a paper by Professor Charles Kerney from Indiana ( Vice-president of the American Association of the Deaf ) which was read by A M Sleight ( the President 's son and headmaster of the Brighton Institute in succession to his grandfather ) and interpreted to the deaf by J W Dawson . |
| 8 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 9 | As it went down to a flutter of clapping , John added : ‘ They wanted to study the effects . |
| 10 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
| 11 | Effectively , it boiled down to a continuation in a certain sense of the original situation , except that now the primal father exercised his authority not in the social group , but within the ego — he became a psychological agency instead of being a physical reality . |
| 12 | Knowing that not many Southwark families sat down to a breakfast like that , the Beavises blessed their luck and addressed the world with beaming gratitude . |
| 13 | I was a little tired and went to my room to rest before dressing for dinner and he sat down to a game of Patience . |
| 14 | Her parents were a benign though distant presence and it was n't until Charles was seven that he actually sat down to a meal with his father in the downstairs dining-room . |
| 15 | Ninety guests , including André Gide , Picasso , Max Jacob , Matisse , Vlaminck and Cocteau , sat down to a meal of fantasy . |