Example sentences of "[verb] down to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 2 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 3 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 4 | Mr Tillingham got down to churchy business , the funeral would take place at three in the afternoon … |
| 5 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 6 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 7 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 9 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 10 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 11 | I got down to ten |
| 12 | Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 13 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 14 | A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six . |
| 15 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 16 | Eleven by-elections are unlikely in the next few months — but if his majority is whittled down to five or six , he may call another election before too long . |
| 17 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 18 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 19 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 20 | Cut the power and pull back the yoke fully , whereupon the Aircoupe will slow down to 50 mph and , because you ca n't stall it , will nod and mush downwards , the full-span ailerons remaining effective throughout . |
| 21 | The riddle of the up-and-down interest rates — back down to 10 per cent yesterday . |
| 22 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 23 | To maintain high gain down to zero frequency , the amplifier is directly coupled and to overcome the resulting problem of distinguishing between real and pseudo signals , due to , for example , bias or thermal variations , differential circuit techniques are adopted . |
| 24 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
| 25 | What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal . |
| 26 | each each year it sort of goes down to half . |
| 27 | Total income is slightly reduced , however , since tweed production goes down to 2 per week ( £4,368 ) . |
| 28 | The message of Opportunity 2000 — the business-led initiative to get more women into top management by the year 2000 is not filtering down to many line managers , according to the campaign 's first year report . |
| 29 | This allows the machine-chisel to shuffle back and forth , stepping down to full depth . |
| 30 | I did , however , manage to get the doctors and dentists award down to 6 per cent . |