Example sentences of "[vb pp] down to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was strapped down to his bed and as Irina stood watching him he stirred , the eyelids fluttered open for a second and then closed tight . |
| 2 | He turned out to be an elderly ex-colonel , who was tracked down to his retirement home in Surrey . |
| 3 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 4 | Trench had settled down to his book again . |
| 5 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 6 | Astor retained the Observer , which was subsequently passed down to his son Waldorf . |