Example sentences of "it [vb -s] down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 3 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 4 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 5 | Having got to the top , it flutters down to the base of another tree and starts all over again . |
| 6 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 7 | It 's open grass with not much cover and it slopes down to the pond and the stream which bisect the two parts of the battle area . ’ |
| 8 | It 'd be knackered by the time it gets down to the Cocks Terry , from here . |
| 9 | I think it boils down to the fact that it 's fairly economic to transport vast quantities of people but not to transport from the outer edges and the odd bits in the middle and there 's no way that they 're going to get a full and comprehensive service come what may . |
| 10 | I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to . |
| 11 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 12 | Again , it comes down to the concept of institutionalisation and the harmful effects on mentally handicapped people living with large numbers of other handicapped people as opposed to integrating freely with the community at large . |
| 13 | It comes down to the clowning , the pratfalls , the catcalls , |
| 14 | So , in the end ( or should one say ‘ at the beginning' ? ) it comes down to the health of the living soil . |
| 15 | Cinderella , oh I do n't know when that one 's coming down if it comes down to the pictures we 'll go and watch it , I 'll promise you that , right , who 's nicked my cup ? |