Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] down to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 2 | This same process has continued down to the present , now with the next generation of Hirmers , Albert and Irmgard , supplying many new plates , especially of the recently restored churches at Wies and Dießen . |
| 3 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 4 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 5 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 7 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 8 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 9 | They really ought to have got moved down to the bottom . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 12 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 13 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 14 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 15 | But Sekularac said he had been pushed by the usher and pushed back after his glasses got knocked down to the ground . |
| 16 | Little enough of the borough 's wealth appears to have filtered down to the townsfolk . |
| 17 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 18 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 19 | We 've come down to the wine |
| 20 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 28 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 29 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 30 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |