Example sentences of "he [verb] down to [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was very normal , you could see him walking down to the bank Monday to Friday , but he 's got this completely eccentric side to him . ’ |
| 2 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 3 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 4 | At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda . |
| 5 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 6 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 7 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 8 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 9 | He done down to the top of the trainer |
| 10 | Jack hit a few shots and when the headmaster had disappeared around the corner he strolled down to the green and dropped three or four balls into the hole ‘ just to make sure ’ . |
| 11 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 12 | So he came down to the vestibule , where the three doors were , and under the sills of the two great doors light shone , warm and enticing , and the third was behind a musty leather curtain . |
| 13 | He came down to the half-landing and stood behind her , peering over her shoulder at Carlos 's face on the little phone . |
| 14 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 15 | But Gregory , he came down to the er to the base , and then I went out , you see and er er he he was back at the base whil whil whilst this was going on . |
| 16 | He drove down to the paper 's office and presented a lamb , killed the night before , to the editor . |
| 17 | He drove down to the beach , but did not park near Pepe 's . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought you were someone else , ’ explained Endill as he climbed down to the ground . |
| 19 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 20 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 21 | He walked down to the end . |
| 22 | Peter watched him as he walked down to the lych gate . |
| 23 | He walked down to the Redmond house with Anne to collect Sarah and to say goodbye to the Redmonds . |
| 24 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 25 | He walked down to the tail and pressed his hands on the rudder , wet with morning mist . |
| 26 | He stepped down to the water 's edge and smelled the air hard . |
| 27 | He had heard shots , including the rapid fire of automatics , but when he rushed down to the river-bank the kidnappers had already vanished with their victims . |
| 28 | His chest felt as if it was going to burst and he felt sick and dizzy as he settled down to a steady plod . |
| 29 | He leapt down to the floor and made two gigantic walls of books , trapping Mr Fractor between them . |
| 30 | He scrambled down to the water 's edge . |