Example sentences of "able [to-vb] down to " in BNC.

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1 In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water .
2 And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six .
3 From there she 'd be able to go down to the lakeside if she chose , or else pick up one of the shore paths that would take her further into the valley .
4 The size of the device — which Faris expects to be able to scale down to 0.1 micrometres across — makes it suitable for use in very and ultra-large scale integrated circuits .
5 With that comparatively primitive system we were able to fly down to a height of 200 feet above the runway .
6 He would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband .
7 Charles would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband .
8 With these five factors examined and the results of preliminary thinking kept in mind , the teacher or the planning team will be able to settle down to detailed planning of the specific learning sequence in question , whether it is a short piece of structured work with a work-sheet , tape-slide sequence or programmed unit , or whether it occupies several weeks of varied work .
9 ‘ I 've knitted you a tracksuit , dear — now you 'll be able to jog down to the shop when I need more yarn . ’
10 As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie .
11 This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo .
12 So I need to be able to get down to actu that 's when you , supposing that comes down by another ten K say , so then we 're talking about fifty K , thereabouts , overspend in the main area , in which case to work out what 's caused that , is that directly attributable to the the inputting of the systems .
13 Not every school will be able to travel down to Portsmouth to see the wreck of the Mary Rose for themselves , but they could watch a video about the discovery and raising of the wreck , and carry out a computer simulation to search for the wreck .
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