Example sentences of "[vb pp] down to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 2 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 3 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 5 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 6 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 7 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 8 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 9 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 10 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 11 | ‘ As the industry matures , I believe airlines will be stripped down to the core business of flying people and cargo from place to place . |
| 12 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 13 | Blood had initially drained down to the back of the neck , thighs and mid-back . ’ |
| 14 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 15 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 16 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 17 | Needless to say Jeffery , and many others , have had little difficulty in showing how all such attempts have inevitably boiled down to the arbitrary moral predilections of the criminologists concerned . |
| 18 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 19 | Ray Angel put the final touches , adding echo and reverberation when the voices were relayed down to the studio floor . |
| 20 | The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively . |
| 21 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |
| 22 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 23 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 24 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 25 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 26 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 27 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 28 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 29 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 30 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |