Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McKenzie was out of ammunition , but followed an enemy aircraft down to sea level , stuck up a wing and chopped off its tail — he was lucky to be able to regain control of his own aircraft , ’ Mr Lynch said . |
| 2 | The orders came from Command right down to squadron level ; the preparations started about mid-morning as soon as this vast sheet of paper from the teleprinter indicating every facet of the job ahead arrived . |
| 3 | And three-year-old Louis brought Britain 's Olympic silver medallist down to earth with a bump when they clashed . |
| 4 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |
| 5 | The train journey down to london was nothing to rave about . |
| 6 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 7 | And it would cut his ally Hayling down to size . |
| 8 | Bringing the Earth Summit down to earth |