Example sentences of "[conj] down to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And er wash the cups and And he used to have to go running er down with messages down to or down to the head office rather that we had an office in where where our fitting shop was where there was a draughtsman 's office .
2 Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view .
3 Its usual course flows from above the lorry park , round the trees and down to the lower bridge which marks its normal width .
4 We wandered up and down to the inadequate refreshment kiosk , drinking soda and eating buns .
5 We slipped and slithered out of the stable courtyard where horses moved and snickered , past the Templar church and down to the gleaming lakeside .
6 Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park .
7 He took the letter and the envelope out of his office and down to the abandoned area at the end of the corridor .
8 The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’
9 From the North Sea and Baltic coasts through the North German Plain and down to the Black Forest and Alps , Germany has a wealth of contrasting scenic beauty .
10 The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed .
11 The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others .
12 Hunger then tended to strike , forcing them out of that sinful bed , and down to the sunlit kitchen to make breakfast of fruit and coffee and rolls .
13 Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded .
14 As kiss followed riotous kiss , his fingertips trailed along the smooth column of her throat and down to the silky fabric of her dress .
15 ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’
16 Today it tends to be a more exclusive activity in which theologians talk straight to each other and down to the faithful .
17 I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain !
18 Corbett nodded and followed both the envoy and his strange companion out of the room and down to the main hall of the castle .
19 The skeleton of the body took shape and when complete would be lifted on to rollers , rolled along the timber , out through the double doors and down to the waiting chassis in the yard by means of skids .
20 The difficulty was that there was no agreement about the signs , and down to the seventeenth century no strong feeling that there should be such agreement .
21 It was surely going to be a doddle , taking up the slabs , using part of the profile of the old pond to define the layout of the new , then some easy digging , smoothing , measuring and down to the aquatic shop for a liner .
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