Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] down to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 2 | I fish such a bait on a 14 hook , or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky . |
| 3 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 6 | P. P. Sometimes , when we were going in at night , when it was wet , we would try and put a mac on and slip down to A Division parade room — hang the mac up quick and dive into your coat . |
| 7 | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path , I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd 's hut built into one wall . |
| 8 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 9 | Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing . |
| 10 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) a van was auctioned and knocked down to a Mr. King . |
| 11 | The whole assembly can then be given several coats of varnish to help hold the windings in place and glued down to a square mounting board , etc . |
| 12 | They reached the auto-route du Soleil and settled down to a steady ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 13 | After a few days , the little creature glues its nose on a rock , loses its tail and settles down to a life of sedentary filtration . |
| 14 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
| 15 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 16 | Pour in the stock , bring to the boil , then cover and turn down to a gentle simmer for about 1 hour and cook until tender , stirring occasionally . |
| 17 | One day they 'll make a big killing , quit the rackets and settle down to a respectable life in a new town . |
| 18 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 19 | Behind the wall was part of Moorlake 's garden , but most of the latter lay behind the house itself , and ran down to a small stream , with a view beyond of fields and woods , some forty acres of which had been owned by Alicia Lockwood , the remains of her father 's more extensive holding . |
| 20 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |