Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort . |
| 3 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 4 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |
| 5 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 6 | All over Austria , children are included in adult activities to a much greater extent than in Britain , but in the Alpine province of Vorarlberg they 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 7 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 8 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
| 9 | Oh we 've got it down to absolute fine art now ! |
| 10 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 11 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 12 | I have narrowed it down to one of two employees , both of whom work in the kitchen . |
| 13 | Finished it all , and then , I just decided then I sorted out my washing , and then I decided what part I was gon na do , I 'd narrowed it down to either topic , task or topic erm , stable features , which are , sort of , erm , self confidence and things , and erm , how you you express yourself , and then a third one is like sex an and gender and age . |
| 14 | It would have suited you down to the ground . ’ |
| 15 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 16 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |
| 17 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 18 | He used to smoke sixty cigarettes a day and says he 's brought it down to between fifteen and twenty roll-ups . |
| 19 | Aye , she says what they 're getting Sheila , she said I 've just cut me hours down they , they were working thirty nine and they 've cut me down to thirty two , just like part-time thing , like you know |
| 20 | It was probably true that he 'd asked him down to London . |
| 21 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
| 22 | So his daddy cut it down to twelve pound a fortnight , that 's six pound a week |
| 23 | They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium . |
| 24 | but erm Jim 's knocked him down to two . |
| 25 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 26 | In Figure 9.5 I have continued it down to 10 bars , the pressure versus altitude being calculated from adiabatic lapse-rate conditions . |
| 27 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 28 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |
| 29 | I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination . |
| 30 | If I had n't made it , I would n't have put it down to my colour . |