Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 2 | Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings . |
| 3 | But er I can remember being in Evay and a funeral there and to me it was very strange because they carried the coffin from the kirk right down to the kirkyard at the pier . |
| 4 | From the filament in the fog lamps right down to the washers on the wipers . |
| 5 | If we quarrel if we have a good punch up and all that between us and them that would suit the other side right down to the ground . |
| 6 | They lowered their voices right down to the floor . |
| 7 | The authors put the reasons for the concentration mainly down to mergers between accounting firms , and voluntary auditor changes . |
| 8 | The recent cuts in the mortgage rate — with the cost of borrowing on homes now down to around the 7–8% level — will also fuel a wave of spending in the high street . |
| 9 | if if you remember we we kept the annual report bit , the financial bit just down to one side . |
| 10 | Her life seemed to be planned by Miss Havisham right down to the smallest detail . |
| 11 | Instead of accompanying us , he carried the Bulgarian bodily down to the refuge . |
| 12 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 13 | Dogs have been bred for many different tasks , from the massive guard dogs and fighting dogs right down to the little toy dogs and lap-dogs . |
| 14 | The Environmental Protection Act ( EPA ) , has a whole host of implications right down to the type of paint we can use by 1998 . |
| 15 | He took the Stork straight down to two thousand , waited until the Yak came in , banked and went down again . |
| 16 | Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea . |
| 17 | Black dresses right down to our ankles . |
| 18 | Tension in the neck and shoulders can be eased by circling the shoulders up and around a few times backwards and forwards and by circling your head slowly down to your chest and then up so that your neck is stretched with your chin in the air . |
| 19 | The city was designed for these machines even down to the shape of control switches on their instruments . |
| 20 | With the Government 's overall majority now down to just 18 , the presence of Ulster Unionists and other minority parties became a key factor in whether the Bill could be wrecked . |
| 21 | Church had followed his Albatros right down to ground level . |
| 22 | Some purpose-built blocks of flats fortunately have rubbish chutes on each landing , which means that you can dispose of the rubbish daily down to a large bin . |
| 23 | The first part was splendid , since on the west side the Forest rises steeply to about eight hundred metres before the high plateau slopes gradually down to the Danube basin . |
| 24 | I just took the lift straight down to reception and went home . ’ |
| 25 | That 's a lift straight down to the cellar . |
| 26 | If you were designing the ultimate holiday resort for Club 18–30 , you would copy San Antonio right down to the last bar and grain of sand . |
| 27 | ‘ And that 's why you go to such lengths to ensure you research your subject even down to the fact of their star sign ? ’ |
| 28 | Hot-wire anemometers can be used in air readily down to about 30 cm s -1 ; below this , measurements are more difficult although not impossible . |
| 29 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 30 | They had finally calmed down , smiled sheepishly — albeit damply — at one another , and Joanna had demanded the whole story , from Isabel 's meeting with Guy right down to their arrival at Ashby Chase . |