Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother .
2 Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again .
3 The once-scarlet , once-thick carpet in the foyer had been trodden down to a greasy thinness the exact shade of hard , encrusted blood .
4 The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains .
5 A NATIONAL treasure has been tracked down to a German museum after it was allegedly stolen by a man using a metal detector .
6 We 're going down to the village .
7 We 're going down to the beach to look for mussels . ’
8 So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there .
9 ‘ We 're getting down to the real stuff — mosaics , some wall plaster , animal bones and there are signs of a hypocaust . ’
10 In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation .
11 Bright children are dragged down to the lowest common denominator . ’
12 PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style .
13 A bath chair had been wheeled down to the shelter with the broken windows , and the man in charge of-it had propped it outside and was walking away .
14 Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme .
15 Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point .
16 Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent .
17 ‘ As the industry matures , I believe airlines will be stripped down to the core business of flying people and cargo from place to place .
18 Vincent asked to be wound down to the pit bottom .
19 Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars .
20 Very often an organisational problem can be tracked down to a mismatch between an established structure and new processes formed in response to new events and pressures .
21 The problem of poor image quality can be tracked down to the scanning stage .
22 Under the bill , many cases now dealt with by the High Court will be moved down to the county courts , currently plagued by staff shortages and a backlog of work .
23 ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations .
24 Two : concentrated distilled gin may be watered down to the correct strength .
25 From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him .
26 Because it is inexpensive , burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century .
27 Admittedly , gifts during life will be taxed less heavily than bequests , provided that the donor survives the gift by four years , but even so it will be almost impossible for a thriving business or a farm of economic size to be handed down to the next generation .
28 ‘ I 'm going down to the Customs House . ’
29 ‘ No , I 'm going down to the pub , ’ he answered and he wiped a tear away from his eye .
30 ‘ I 'm going down to the pub , ’ she said ; ‘ I need a drink ’ , and added rather threateningly , ‘ You coming ? ’
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