Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] down to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 2 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 3 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
| 4 | ’ Then send it down to this position to pick me up ’ . |
| 5 | Look , if , if somebody charges you three hundred pound , and you say that 's too much and you complain and they knock it down to two fifty , but they say but we want you to pay fifty pounds on something else , extra , do you think the two fifty 's fair , eh ? |
| 6 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort . |
| 8 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 9 | But his thoughts were elsewhere , as he still could n't understand why the Academy would send anyone down to this class D planet . |
| 10 | I put it down to greater maturity and not worrying . |
| 11 | These machine errors happened two or three times a day , I put it down to mechanical damage whilst moving . |
| 12 | I put it down to that welt in his shoulder . |
| 13 | Angela , 19 , from Woolton and presently studying medicine at Nottingham University , says : ‘ I had all the classic symptoms of flu so I put it down to that . |
| 14 | Put it down to inverted snobbery . |
| 15 | If there 's anything I forgot put it down to old age and I 'll try and remember next time . ’ |
| 16 | In the case of a patient with a very high level , say 9 , that would bring it down to 7 but then the level will probably remain static . |
| 17 | The potential deficit on the poll tax collection fund er because of these people not registering is well over million pounds and that by spending the hundred thousand proposed here , would actually bring it down to seven hundred and thirty five thousand pounds and that 's where the conjuring trick is er this er amendment because of course , if you work out the increase in the balances that you are proposing to take in this amendment , it works out exactly to seven hundred and thirty five thousand pounds , well it does on my calculations Mr Mayor . |
| 18 | I cut it down to two paragraphs . ’ |
| 19 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 20 | We 've got one down to one eighty . |
| 21 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |
| 22 | Oh we 've got it down to absolute fine art now ! |
| 23 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 24 | Can you narrow it down to various professions on the er expectancies ? |
| 25 | If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure . |
| 26 | His mother wus allus sendun him down to tha willage shop . |
| 27 | costing us lately , we 're having to get these , I mean we have that on two in the morning to get this room warmed up do n't we have to put it down to one |
| 28 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 29 | I have narrowed it down to one of two employees , both of whom work in the kitchen . |
| 30 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |