Example sentences of "[vb past] down to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ political officer ’ ( zampolit ) , posted down to company level , is the linchpin of political control , charged with overseeing military-political training and the enforcement of Party policy . |
| 2 | And , while her hopes dropped down to basement level , ‘ Now , ’ he added , ‘ I 'm taking Azor for his walk . ’ |
| 3 | Still laughing , she set off , and Sophie settled down to morning surgery . |
| 4 | After delivering his message of support to the organic movement at Cirencester , he held a seminar at Kensington Palace to air the issues , and he and John Higgs subsequently went down to Elm Farm to investigate the possibilities of employing organic methods on the home farm . |
| 5 | They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune . |
| 6 | With dye terminators , 96 templates can be sequenced in a single microtitre dish and excess dye terminators are removed 24 samples at a time by gravity chromatography using a perspex block of microcolumns scaled down to microtitre format ( 12 ) . |
| 7 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |