Example sentences of "[conj] down to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rest days from Ullapool were really out of the question so we either had to take the ship on the long sea passage to Aberdeen or down to Ardrossan . |
| 2 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 3 | From this point , individual circuit cables wend their way around the house , crossing ceilings and floors , and running up or down to light switches and socket outlets at convenient points . |
| 4 | Fabia was up , dressed and down to breakfast by eight the next morning . |
| 5 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 6 | He wanted to stay in his own place but Jackie and Neville were nearly driven mad running up and down to Letchworth when all that they had to do , Jackie 's full time teaching and Nev is trying to build as many kitchens or build as many doors for millionaires as he possibly can . |
| 7 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 8 | And go up and down to London . |
| 9 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 10 | Some of the time the Germans at one end of the stadium were hearing the French translation , while their own language was floating with the wind over the top of the stadium and down to Lake Geneva . |
| 11 | The courses offered cover a huge range of time , from the origins of the human species , through the millennia of prehistory , the early civilizations of Mesopotamia , Egypt and the East Mediterranean and down to Celtic Europe at the beginning of Roman imperial expansion in Western Europe . |
| 12 | Every time the monostable output pulses low , transistor TR1 switches on and capacitor C2 loses a substantial amount of its charge via resistor R3 and down to 0V through the emitter of TR1 . |
| 13 | She was fun and easy to be with , natural and down to earth , yet she was sensitive and courageous in the way she had coped with her father 's illness . |
| 14 | And down to earth though she was , she had to admit there were often some weird parallels . |
| 15 | On a practical and down to earth level it is worth finding out what clerical support you are likely to get in the clinic or base where you will be working . |
| 16 | WHAT OUR READERS SAY : ‘ May I compliment you on your very practical commonsense magazine which is informative , colourful , and down to earth . ’ |
| 17 | Er now some more practical and down to earth aspects er Michael director of development will run through the critical path analysis for the new factory extension . |
| 18 | Another recent royal portraitist is the amiable and down to earth Yorkshireman , Tom Wood . |
| 19 | Blues is viciously streamlined to a sound more U2-mainstreamed and modern , but still wild and down to earth . |
| 20 | More often she reminds me of our paternal grandmother , plump , practical and down to earth , ruling her household and large family with a shrewd capacity for command , always in an overall , her hair never tidy , her arms often covered in flour , talkative and affectionate . |
| 21 | Blues is viciously streamlined to a sound more U2-mainstreamed and modern , but still wild and down to earth . |
| 22 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 23 | At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep . |
| 24 | Go east along field edge and down to stile . |
| 25 | Leaving the phone-booth , Quinn walked back into Blandford Street and down to Blackwood 's Hotel . |
| 26 | In somewhat better weather conditions they climbed the five-mile drove-road to the lofty Tushielaw pass , and down to Tushielaw itself , with its bridge across Ettrick , making good time , although the burns and streams were running high and making fording a problem in places . |
| 27 | Most people arrive on the island on the north side and from here it 's best to travel east and walk from the port of Ryde over to the town of Seaview and down to Sandown . |
| 28 | Benny 's mother was back in the kitchen , her coat off and down to business with the icing sugar . |
| 29 | But soon it was on with those famous upside-down glasses and down to business . |
| 30 | Nearly £15,000 has been spent on landscaping and surfacing the area by The Globe public house and down to Alresford Pond . |