Example sentences of "[vb base] down to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 2 | Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ; |
| 3 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |
| 4 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 5 | That 's interesting where do they meet , walk down to the local church and that 's great well what sort of time do they meet oh you know eleven till five ? |
| 6 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
| 7 | At the top of the dry valley I scramble down to the green path , following the old hedge of thorns and elders , pointing the way , beckoning me onwards as I descend the gently curving path down the rolling hillside . |
| 8 | so anyway , she hires so he hires this prostitute and they , they go upstairs and he gets a bit hungry so sarnie and they get down to the serious business |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry to keep you waiting , ’ he went on , ‘ but those of you who have been here before will know that I like to say a few words to break the ice before we get down to the real business of the weekend . |
| 10 | ‘ I say to kids , go down to the high street bank , see the bank manager and find out whether he 'll lend you the fifty grand you need to make this record . |
| 11 | I 'm only gon na get it four foot deep with it anyway it would n't be four foot deep all over , it 'll start off at two foot and then slightly slope down to the deep part |
| 12 | Neat fields slope down to the still water . |
| 13 | It is perhaps significant , in this opening paragraph , that the sentences move to a peak of length in sentence ( 4 ) , and thence slope down to the final brevity of ( 7 ) . |
| 14 | erm Now , there 's a very nice one , if you move down to the single stroke , you see there are two 2s written , and below that there 's a single stroke . |
| 15 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 16 | ‘ You can take a tea tray up to the wood and slide down to the back garden . |
| 17 | We need to stop casting about fruitlessly for organizational Holy Grails and settle down to the hard work of putting our managerial hierarchies in order . |
| 18 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |