Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 2 | This approach thus represents an extension of the hierarchical system and can be considered to simplify down to such a system when each of the superior states are considered in turn . |
| 3 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 4 | Quite a few of us from used to go down to cricket match . |
| 5 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 6 | sorting out and then I 've got to go down to that conference and fly up to Stone Haven |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got to go down to the off-licence later . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , cos I 've got to go down to Horley I 've got to go to the bank . |
| 9 | I 've got to go down to graphics |
| 10 | You 've got to come down to reality and plan out your life , look at where you 're coming from and where you 're going . |
| 11 | And you 've got to come down to eleven for that . |
| 12 | It 's not the appointments that matter , it 's the activity around the appointment , the fact that I 'm gon na get up on Monday morning , I 'm gon na go training , and once I 've done that , I 've got to nip down to the library , O K , and look up that electoral role , I 've got an appointment , and then I 'm gon na go back to the office , I 'm gon na to do my mail shots and then I 'm gon na to go home , mow the lawn , have a bit of tea , and then I 'm gon na to my approaching , and then I 'm gon na go , yes , on that appointment there . |
| 13 | Now , you 've got to get down to the real nitty gritty : how will the stage look , what about the sound system , who presses what buttons for the audio-visuals and when … ? |
| 14 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 15 | " Look , Miss , " he said , " my mate and I have got to get down to him , but you reported him , and I 'm afraid you 'll have to tell us how you came to see him . |
| 16 | We 've got to get down to the nitty gritty and fight . ’ |
| 17 | And Simon was invited to go down to London for a chat . |
| 18 | So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club . |
| 19 | They should either just touch the floor — no gap between hem and floor — or be allowed to fall down to it in folds , Thirties style . |
| 20 | Three million acres or more of Britain 's countryside ca n't be left to tumble down to nettles , bracken , Oxford ragwort and rosebay willow herb , punctuated by leisure centres and car parks . |
| 21 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
| 22 | The arms are then allowed to drop down to the sides of the body , suddenly , as though they had become as heavy as lead . |
| 23 | He was then required to go down to the ranges to practise shooting with the 9 mm pistol . |
| 24 | So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will . |
| 25 | Although most of the Mondays managed to knuckle down to a daily routine , rather than the usual blurred , night-time slog , stories continued to filter back to Britain that it was n't all hunky-dory in paradise . |