Example sentences of "[verb] down to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 2 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 3 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 4 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 5 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 6 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 7 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 8 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 9 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 10 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 11 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 12 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 13 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 14 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 15 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 16 | A day to unwind and slow down to the leisurely pace of a Greek Cruise . |
| 17 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 18 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 19 | At the top of the hill Ossian still had the lead , and he kept in front as the runners made down to the final bend , though Pistol Packer and Caro were improving their positions . |
| 20 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 21 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 22 | Having anticipated that Nana would be unable to supply gin and Safex , even in an emergency , Mada Joyce had sent her oldest boy loping down to the Chinese store in the lowest village for these essentials . |
| 23 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 24 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 25 | Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . |
| 26 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 27 | There was a trap-door in the centre of the kitchen floor , which led down to a deep cellar . |
| 28 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 29 | Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area . |
| 30 | Beyond this , four short steps led down to an oval door let into a solid steel bulkhead . |