Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 2 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah was plannin' to drive down through Arequipa to the Chilean border . ’ |
| 4 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 5 | One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works . |
| 6 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 7 | The number of injuries is actually going down in proportion to the increased number of skiers . |
| 8 | It was reported on March 14 that all military exercises were soon to be scaled down in response to the diminishing threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 9 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 11 | I know , when we used to down to London to the London Scout Gang Show . |
| 12 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 13 | The streams of some hanging valleys drop down over waterfalls to the main valley . |
| 14 | Go down at night to the Corniche , the old Portuguese part of Muscat , and you are as safe as in your air-conditioned hotel . |
| 15 | They will have to be slowed down by moderators to the energy required , and then guided to the instruments in which the scientists will study their materials . |
| 16 | The gauntlet is being thrown down by Pemex to the international community . |