Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at home again I came down to breakfast one morning scratching my head and my hair started to fall out . |
| 2 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 3 | I came down to earth again . |
| 4 | I came down to earth a bit when Harry Enfield came on to thunderous applause . |
| 5 | C : I went down to Muirhouse |
| 6 | I went down to dinner . |
| 7 | When they were no more than damp , I went down to dinner . |
| 8 | Once again I sat down to breakfast surrounded by sporting trophies and medals , many of them won by the young man of the house during his schooldays . |
| 9 | That day , I not only forgot the can of fruit and the opener when I sat down to lunch , but was up and down , putting on more clothes and trying to find the most sheltered spot in relation to the wheelbarrow . |
| 10 | Once you got down to Question 11 , the questioner would get a deeply unhelpful written response which would , if the civil servants knew their business , leave no one any the wiser . |
| 11 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 12 | It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast . |
| 13 | He was already gone when she came down to breakfast , which did n't surprise her at all . |
| 14 | She came down to earth then . |
| 15 | The next morning , having hardly slept , she went down to breakfast feeling dreadful . |
| 16 | When she went down to breakfast there was the background noise of caterers clearing away the vestiges of the ball . |
| 17 | Fabia got busy with her packing and , that done , she went down to Reception to pay her bill . |
| 18 | She floated down to earth slowly , to find him studying her dazed face with an unmistakable gleam of triumph in his eyes . |
| 19 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 20 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 21 | We got down to number tend and they were all one liners . |
| 22 | Said everything came down to sex , did n't he ? ’ |
| 23 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 24 | Having survived ten days in the Caribbean unbeaten and relatively unscathed , in St Kitts we came down to earth with a large thump and were soundly thrashed by the island 's powerful side , which contained several hard hitting batsmen . |
| 25 | We settled down to dinner at 8 p.m. and at 10 p.m . |
| 26 | We sat down to lunch at one-fifteen and rose sometime after three-thirty . |
| 27 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |
| 28 | Of course I agreed , and as we sat down to dinner , Herbert told me Miss Havisham 's sad story . |
| 29 | My mind was still on Mr Billings 's problem during the afternoon calls and when we sat down to supper I was only mildly surprised to find another offering of sausage and mash . |
| 30 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |