Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when you 're finished here take the combine on down to Pope 's Bottom ready for the morning . |
| 2 | Even those who slim right down to their goal weight will always find parts they wish were even slimmer ! |
| 3 | Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail . |
| 4 | Cul-de-sacs skirt warily down to them and then peter out . |
| 5 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 6 | You go up to the top , then ski back down to the bottom . |
| 7 | ‘ Or Liz Taylor , if you get right down to it . ’ |
| 8 | They get right down to business . |
| 9 | It 's all the same when you get right down to it . |
| 10 | Every minute counts in an exam , so get straight down to your answer . |
| 11 | And when you get back down to earth , concessionary discounts can ease your domestic burdens . |
| 12 | It is on a vast scale though : Franz Schrader , the first great cartographer of these mountains , estimated that it would hold twenty million people ; modern guidebooks have cut this number churlishly , and for all I know realistically down to three million . |
| 13 | They get tight down to the bones of things . |
| 14 | When they come out , they are fry ; as they grow a little , they become parr ; larger still , they turn into smolt and fizz off down to the sea . |
| 15 | From there they go right down to northern Spain . |
| 16 | Then you go right down to the bottom of Road you cos that 's a dead end anyway , . |
| 17 | Go right down to , er through the arch |
| 18 | And then , if we go right down to the bottom , there 's a whole lot bracketed together against the . |
| 19 | Harvey suggested Morris go on down to the party ahead of him , as he was waiting for a partner : he had no wish to take Rupert Murdoch 's shilling , but he was happy to drink his champagne . |
| 20 | ‘ You go straight down to Norwich down to Ber Street , the man will be a-waiting for you . ’ |
| 21 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 22 | Carry on down to the tip of the island ; Wall Street . |
| 23 | Carry on down to the oven and you 'll find six shelf positions and enough room for a 25lb turkey and all the trimmings . |
| 24 | You carry on down to Putney Bridge , get this lot unloaded . |
| 25 | A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at Bono 's frantic , manic animation , briefly bemused . |
| 26 | Yes , I urge everybody in Witney , put down your knives and forks , record your favourites on the video , come on down to Witney , give the lads a cheer , they are playing Gloucester City . |
| 27 | It was all the Yeti 's doing when you come right down to it . |
| 28 | It 's branches come right down to the ground , ’ she added , by way of explanation . |
| 29 | When you come right down to it , I did n't actually see anything unpleasant . |
| 30 | Society 's to blame when you come right down to it . |