Example sentences of "[v-ing] down to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . |
| 4 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 5 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 6 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 7 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 8 | I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew ! |
| 9 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 10 | Apply a warm khaki-green on the browbone , rounding down to the outside corner of the eye , and highlight with an orangy glow just under the arch of the eyebrow . |
| 11 | There were five stone stairs leading down to a wooden floor and a narrow stone corridor . |
| 12 | It has over four hectares of terraced gardens leading down to the rocky shore where you can swim in the sea or swimming pool . |
| 13 | The lift leading down to the diving area was only twenty feet away . |
| 14 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
| 15 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 16 | He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall . |
| 17 | When he peeped through the gap he could see the big half-pillars supporting the lintel , the rounded stone steps leading down to the paved walkway and the wilderness of garden beyond . |
| 18 | Even her little house was somehow in keeping with this picture , although it was definitely not St John 's Wood and there was no delicate wrought iron balcony with steps leading down to the green garden . |
| 19 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 20 | I leant against a chestnut , one of a bib of trees leading down to the Wild Garden . |
| 21 | Across the back of the house was a kitchen , a bathroom and a big breakfast room with steps leading down to the back garden . |
| 22 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 23 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 24 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 25 | Whether time permits or not , a detour should be made along the A.881 from Broadford to its terminus at Elgol , there going down to the colourful beach of pebbles and wild flowers and low cliffs : a beautiful foreground to a classic view , the finest in Britain , of the Black Cuillin across the wide waters of Loch Scavaig , a picture that would defeat a Constable or a Turner . |
| 26 | On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles . |
| 27 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 28 | Before going down to the northern ramparts where the brunt of the attack was expected to fall , he took a last look round the room and saw Hari 's phrenology book lying on the floor . |
| 29 | Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey . |
| 30 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |