Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Brother , ’ he whispered , ‘ we have the Regent 's permission to go down to the Springall house now , to examine and take anything we wish . |
| 2 | This visit , he told Alice as the train took them back to London later that evening , had been a very happy one and it was his intention to go down to Calking to see them all again very soon . |
| 3 | Corridors giving access to the flats in this half wrap around three sides of the silo and are extended as galleries , supported by timber beams and cast-iron columns , salvaged from the original internal structure , to enclose the atrium , which allows daylight to penetrate down to every floor of the building . |
| 4 | ‘ All it needs is for a journalist to go down to Abbotsfield . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go down to Mrs Wright 's now and get to the bottom of this , ’ said his Dad as Philip went upstairs . |
| 6 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 7 | Rather , supporters tend to wait until the seemingly inevitable lapse of concentration in defence before expecting the side to get down to serious business . |
| 8 | A young reporter , Mary Kenny , was despatched by the diary editor to go down to Clarendon Road , complete with a photographer , and get a story . |
| 9 | Smelling the water , Daisy needed no further encouragement and put on a spurt to hurry down to the river . |
| 10 | But dégorgement dates back at least as far as Dom Pérignon , who we know kept bottles stored , neck downward , in a bed of sand in order to encourage the sediment to drift down to the base of the cork . |
| 11 | The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business . |
| 12 | Could that be when Wetherby left his room to go down to the kitchen ? ’ |
| 13 | Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere . |
| 14 | Redundancies reached an all-time high in the third quarter of 1992 , and , given the savings restriction on claiming benefits , there is an incentive to spend down to below this limit . |
| 15 | As the Frenchmen left their hiding place to head down to the shore they ran into several German patrols and , after giving a good account of themselves , were captured when they ran out of ammunition . |
| 16 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 17 | She slipped her hand through the crook of his arm once they emerged into the foyer and they walked in silence to the lift to go down to the basement car park . |
| 18 | They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep . |
| 19 | And then he turned away , leaving the cotton waste and the human tissue to render down to a common , indistinguishable ash . |
| 20 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 21 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 22 | The IMF cast doubt on budget expectations relating to inflation , forecast by the government to come down to 4.5 per cent but which the IMF believed would be at least 5.5 per cent , and on the ability of the government to cut public spending sufficiently . |
| 23 | I 've seen my patients and now I 've got to drive like hell to get down to Tweed Heads before Jill and Martin conclude that I 'm not coming . ’ |
| 24 | But I should say very often the old Guv'nor would let him have either a shilling to go down to the pub while we did the job , or else he would provide him with a jug of home-brewed beer and bread and cheese . |
| 25 | Well it , it I expected that he would have to go and I should have to manage on my own and it was quite er er a , a way to come down to the shop . |
| 26 | Generals , officers , non-commissioned officers , and men fought shoulder to shoulder down to the last shot . |
| 27 | ‘ The hotel bar was closed and we were all famished so it seemed like a good idea to trek down to the local ‘ pub ’ to search out a few sarnies , ’ says Gedge . |
| 28 | They regretted TM 's ‘ eastern mystical ’ connotations but pointed out that it was ‘ a very simple , natural technique which allows mental activity to settle down to a state of increased inner quietness , producing deep mental and physical rest ’ . |
| 29 | Is it in order for a Minister to lay down to the House how the Chairman of the Committee that has been established will decide how the debates in Committee will take place ? |
| 30 | Look sharpish , and there 'll still be time to whip down to Rose Morris in London 's Denmark Street on Wednesday Nov 18th to catch an Ovation clinic featuring one of the UK 's best-known sessioneers Ian Aitken . |