Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | You tell Ernest to see there 's a good fire for me to come down to . ’ |
| 4 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 5 | ‘ What on earth possessed you to go down to the sea ? ’ asked Mrs Ridley . |
| 6 | " Did Comrade Andrew tell you to go down to the picket ? |
| 7 | I know it 's basically to suit me , but how easy is it for you to get down to Victoria ? ’ |
| 8 | They swaggered into the casino leaving me to settle down to my sewing — trousers for Lee — within the confines of my little kiosk . |
| 9 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 10 | In July 1950 he asked her to drive down to Cambridgeshire and collect his son from boarding school . |
| 11 | Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe . |
| 12 | Turning , she beheld Araminta at the head of the stairs , and remembered that Miss Merchiston had instructed her to go down to her parlour when she had left her mother . |
| 13 | He wanted her to go down to the river with him . |
| 14 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 15 | We very much wanted him to come down to Merstham again when the weather was better , so that we could drive him round the country . |
| 16 | Rachel had wanted her to settle down to something , Rachel had wanted her to get some proper qualifications and chose a career . |
| 17 | Pius XI had sanctioned for recital after Mass a special prayer to St Michael ‘ for the conversion of Russia ’ , imploring him to thrust down to hell ‘ Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls ’ . |
| 18 | Anyway it was streaming with water so er I told him to get down to doctors , he asked if , that 's why I said oh Stephen 's been back . |
| 19 | I have gave her the co-ordinates from the Emissary 's message , instructing her to drop down to Underlight as we neared that point . |
| 20 | Tell her to get down to Marsh Street and join the rest of the whores . |
| 21 | But the other echo which really gripped me was his reference to some of the Imperial flights down the Gulf that were not as straightforward and as simple as they are today , I speak now of when I was awakened from my afternoon siesta by someone from the guardroom telling me to get down to flights as quickly as possible and have my overnight gear with me . |
| 22 | When the first handful of rice hit the water they did n't dart to the surface , but calmly waited for it to sink down to them . |
| 23 | One is between ‘ centralisers ’ and ‘ regionalists ’ : those who want control to remain in Moscow and those who want it to spread down to republics and localities . |
| 24 | Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ? |