Example sentences of "[verb] down to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 2 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 3 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 4 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 5 | In one house a family of six sit down to a meal , using three-legged chairs and chunks of masonry for seats . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 7 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 8 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 9 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 11 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 14 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 15 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 16 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 17 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 18 | Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . |
| 19 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 20 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 21 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 22 | Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area . |
| 23 | There was a trap-door in the centre of the kitchen floor , which led down to a deep cellar . |
| 24 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 25 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 26 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 27 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 28 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 29 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 30 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |