Example sentences of "[verb] down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 2 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 3 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 4 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 5 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 6 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 7 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 8 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 9 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 10 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 11 | The rain softened the surface and showed the imprint of their short stay as they swooped down to the mirage of what had been their habitat . |
| 12 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 13 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 14 | There was no time to think about it , because I had to pick Toby up at ten o'clock — at the crack of dawn , as he put it — to drive down to the Supersight factory . |
| 15 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 16 | Curzon was more difficult to drive down to the provinces . |
| 17 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 18 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 19 | So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water . |
| 20 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 21 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 22 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 23 | Lady Macduff goes down to the meadow |
| 24 | Music 24 songs and nothin' to hear Geoff Dyer goes down to the Springsteen river , and finds that it 's dry |
| 25 | Nearing the narrows of the loch where the ferry operated , the road climbs a long incline through a forest , emerging in open country and here a branch , formerly the main road , goes down to the hotel and other buildings grouped forlornly around the old ferry pier : it is always sad to see an enterprise that has served its purpose well and has now had its day . |
| 26 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 27 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 28 | Cross the road and take path going north-north-east which then bears left to Stoke Ridge and goes down to the bend in the road at Stoke Pero . |
| 29 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 30 | But not to go all the way to Saint-Palais ; rather , after eight miles , turn to the right , over a crest , along a very minor road that goes down to the hamlet and caves of Isturits . |