Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose you 'd put it down to had management tactics , ’ sneered Ray . |
| 3 | Finished it all , and then , I just decided then I sorted out my washing , and then I decided what part I was gon na do , I 'd narrowed it down to either topic , task or topic erm , stable features , which are , sort of , erm , self confidence and things , and erm , how you you express yourself , and then a third one is like sex an and gender and age . |
| 4 | It was probably true that he 'd asked him down to London . |
| 5 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 6 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 7 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 8 | costing us lately , we 're having to get these , I mean we have that on two in the morning to get this room warmed up do n't we have to put it down to one |
| 9 | Just one Peter yes , but we 'll put that down to the going I think , we 'll have to put it down to something , so we 'll put it down to the going . |
| 10 | It would have suited you down to the ground . ’ |
| 11 | If I had n't made it , I would n't have put it down to my colour . |
| 12 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 13 | They would have put it down to an alfresco commercial for one of the shows . |
| 14 | And like well I said to her I said well then Sandy would have put it down to the fact she did that bad in her ballet . |
| 15 | But Laura was a piranha ; she 'd have chewed him down to the bone if he had let her . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , get your best friend to take you home , ’ said the first constable , ‘ or we might have to take you down to the station for the good of your health . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 18 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |
| 19 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 20 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 21 | We 've got one down to one eighty . |
| 22 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 23 | All over Austria , children are included in adult activities to a much greater extent than in Britain , but in the Alpine province of Vorarlberg they 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 24 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 25 | Oh we 've got it down to absolute fine art now ! |
| 26 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 27 | Willingly or unwillingly , she had bound herself down to a copy book with a fidelity that approaches , and this particularly in her most abstract canvases , the photographic … |
| 28 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 29 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 30 | And I 've cut myself down to one . |