Example sentences of "have [verb] down to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 2 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 3 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 4 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 5 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 6 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 7 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 8 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 9 | The fire had died down to a dull glow and Patrick was just beginning to doze off when there was a soft knock on the door , and it opened to admit Jane , the younger of the two maids , carrying a large tea tray . |
| 10 | Instead , after the first flaring of fame had died down to a steady glow , and he had enjoyed the sexual fruits that it offered , he stayed in his two-room West 11th Street apartment , together with Anne and Karina again , dressed in the faded jeans and threadbare leather jackets he had always worn . |
| 11 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 12 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 13 | Some of the journalists had already left ; others had settled down to the serious business of getting drunk . |
| 14 | He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it . |
| 15 | for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds . |