Example sentences of "[to-vb] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's time to sit down to breakfast . |
| 2 | In fact , she was quietly grateful for the fact that he chose not to sit down to table with them . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't ask to sit down to dinner with them , I did n't ask to be ridiculed and insulted by dear , delightful Melissa ! ’ |
| 4 | It did n't bear thinking of , but I thought of nothing else as I prepared to go down to breakfast . |
| 5 | Quite a few of us from used to go down to cricket match . |
| 6 | but it 's , I , I do n't want to go down to work for hours Chris . |
| 7 | We want temperatures to go down to minus 40 ! |
| 8 | Quite how he would do that she was undecided when later she ran her bath prior to getting ready to go down to dinner . |
| 9 | It turned out that he had locked himself out of his room which was likely to be embarrassing as I , for one , was not about to go down to reception for a key for him . |
| 10 | Use cursor ( arrow ) key to go down to Connection Information , then return . |
| 11 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But , to come down to earth again , Schott 's glass ceramics are just as much at home in the kitchen , where extremes of temperature leave our ‘ Ceran ’ hobs cold . |
| 14 | She crunched through toast and marmalade while Rory had a shower , then said they had to hurry down to breakfast , she 'd need the bulk to make sure a hangover did not develop from the great variety of booze they 'd sunk the night before . |
| 15 | I had to go and get Doug , I had to run down to school |
| 16 | With a shrug , Melissa left the office , fetched notebooks and a writing-pad from her car , and tried to settle down to work . |
| 17 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 18 | I do n't like to have runners to out and get me meals , I do n't like to call down to room service and ask them to bring me up some cigarettes — it 's just not normal . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 21 | 1 am keen now to get down to work . |
| 22 | Finding it difficult to get down to middleweight , I decided to fight as a light-heavy in the University trials . |
| 23 | What is surprising is that a new colony has settled down to breed so quickly — it normally takes a year or even longer for a newly-formed pair to get down to breeding . |
| 24 | ‘ Want to get down to business ? ’ |
| 25 | Müller said , ‘ I do have to catch my plane , Madame Levison , so if you do n't mind , I 'd like to get down to business . |