Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They invited me down to Cincinnati , Ohio , to observe networked computing — or personal computers which are linked together so that information can be transferred from one to another . |
| 2 | In the mid-Eighties the Jockey Club invited him down to London to deliver a gentle reminder . |
| 3 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , on Master Of Puppets we dropped it down to D and live we took it down to C sharp . |
| 5 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 6 | Director Roger Pomphrey 's documentary crew filmed UB40 at home in Brum and followed them down to London with their families and friends . |
| 7 | ‘ Followed you down to La Libertad ? ’ |
| 8 | They reached the great river at Old Melrose , at the foot of Lauderdale , and followed it down to Kelso , where they had made contact with Sir Simon Fraser , who was not exactly besieging Balliol in Roxburgh Castle but containing him there , with the Warden 's force , to prevent him joining Edward Plantagenet at Berwick . |
| 9 | Bracknell 's youth team keeper , Dean Simmons was soon under pressure and as early as the ninth minute , Abingdon took the lead ; having forced a corner , Keith Appleton swung the ball into the area , Steve Aries won it well in the air , and knocked it down to Liam Herbert who crashed his shot past Simmons to make it one nil . |
| 10 | I finally tracked him down to Antwerp . ’ |
| 11 | Then his wife died on the trek and he and his daughter walked into India and asked people everywhere — Did they know where Padre Appleton was ? until at last he tracked us down to Poona . |
| 12 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 13 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 14 | He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 15 | Afterwards , when I would have preferred to stay and stare at Agnes , he took me down to King 's Wharf near the Vintry and into a small ale house which stank of carp and salt . |
| 16 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 17 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 18 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 19 | We took them down to Max 's Kansas City and gave one to Micky Ruskin the owner , we gave one to the DJ ; and we gave one to Lisa Robinson , the reporter . |
| 20 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 21 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 22 | His leadership is respected by all the rugby nations of the world , but a happy bunch of youngsters from Witham School brought him down to earth as they piled in yesterday at Twickenham . |
| 23 | In a way , she brought him down to earth . |
| 24 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 25 | It was the sound of a dull thud from the direction of the bedroom which brought her down to earth with shattering finality , icing her blood , freezing her to the spot . |
| 26 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |
| 27 | So it meant every quarter of an hour you were asking a man to record his numbers , so we boiled it down to termini . |
| 28 | Spending her own money lavishly , she employed jewellers and fine craftsmen to build a doll 's house , magnificently decorated and well-displayed , and took it down to Neptune with her . |
| 29 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 30 | He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th . |