Example sentences of "down to the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because when it came down to the work bit |
| 2 | Right down to the question mark at the end of their name , right ? |
| 3 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 4 | She slipped her hand through the crook of his arm once they emerged into the foyer and they walked in silence to the lift to go down to the basement car park . |
| 5 | She had exactly six hours till midnight , six hours to make up her mind whether to go down to the beach bar , or give it a miss for the very first time . |
| 6 | To the east , well fenced and warning hung , a sheer drop of two hundred feet fell down to the golf course . |
| 7 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 8 | Vincent asked to be wound down to the pit bottom . |
| 9 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 10 | I continue walking down to the north section of West India Dock , to the Sugar Warehouses . |
| 11 | that passes down to the south west sir , yes . |
| 12 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 13 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 14 | Returning to the main road , which is very good , we cross the plateau and pass a small reservoir on the left-hand side with views down to the south side of the island and the sea . |
| 15 | ‘ Down to the Ferry House public bar and back again . |
| 16 | Each one seizing his or her bundle of wraps and nearly tumbling over each other on the narrow stair leading down to the cabin deck . |
| 17 | They moved along passages and down to the cabin deck . |
| 18 | Yeah look at that right down to the water line though in n it ? |
| 19 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |
| 20 | Stairs lead down to the bar area . |
| 21 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 22 | Go down to the factory floor . |
| 23 | But er it was quite a simple job and er I liked it , then now and again I used to walk down to the station master 's or the station inspector 's office you know , have a chat with him and and get the gen on what was for the weekend working you see . |
| 24 | At nine o'clock , on the dot , I went down to the station cafe to face whatever was going to happen . |
| 25 | ‘ Take this guy down to the station house . |
| 26 | When I finished I took the lift down to the typing pool . |
| 27 | The new margins extend down to the division mark . |
| 28 | It looks as though it 's all down to the charm factor in Darlington |
| 29 | I went down to the tap room and ordered a meal though I was hungrier for the dark-eyed slattern I had glimpsed on my last visit with Benjamin . |
| 30 | Laughing and joking , they left their bags there and made their way down to the tap room where the landlord 's wife served them huge fish pies , the crust , golden and crisp , hiding a savoury sauce which dulled the flavour of the rancid fish . |