Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , she 's certainly not drivin' herself all the way down through Chile to Punta Arenas . |
| 3 | The tour travelled up the west coast to Oban , round the far north and down through Inverness to Aberdeen and Edinburgh , finishing up in Dumfries . |
| 4 | Once he 's airborne bring him down into hand to hand combat once your cavalry have made contact . |
| 5 | Dry , roasted peanuts are down from £1.09 to 99p . |
| 6 | Although there was a marked improvement at the operating level , bad debt provisions of £401m , up from £351m , pushed year-end profits down from £58m to £21m . |
| 7 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 8 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 9 | A BMW 316 four-door saloon is down from £15,150 to Pounds 14,544 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 11 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 12 | Traditional pork sausages are down from £1.89 to £1.59 . |
| 13 | Losses in Australia , where there was some reserve strengthening during the year , were down from $22.1m to $12.9m following another good result in the fourth quarter . |
| 14 | Deficit down from $10.7m to $9.8m losses in France of $6.7m . |
| 15 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 16 | TESCO chicken supreme is down from £1.59 to £1.29 . |
| 17 | Philips dishwashers down from £399.99 to £299.99 . |
| 18 | Top rate down from 83p to 40p . |
| 19 | Simpson silk ties down from £25 to £12.50 , Derek Rose dressing gowns down from £99 to £44.50 , Church 's Oxford shoes for men down from £125 to £85 . |
| 20 | Leather jackets down from £199 to £139 , leather skirts from Pounds 129 to £90 , wool/angora coats from £299 to £209 . |
| 21 | The short trip down from Sicily to Malta , dropping Caroline off for her business assignment , had provided the perfect opportunity . |
| 22 | For several years we drove all the way down from Hertfordshire to Cornwall , very slowly , starting in the early hours of the morning and arriving about tea-time , if we were lucky . |
| 23 | Further marked decline in subsidence claims — down from $30m to $17.3m . |
| 24 | Interest paid was down from £3.1m to £1.2m and gearing at the year-end was 9 per cent . |
| 25 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 26 | There was a less than satisfactory result in Europe , although losses at the half year were marginally lower at $20.2m ( 1992 : $20.6m loss ) following a deficit in the second quarter down from $9.4m to $8.2m . |
| 27 | There was a marked reduction in subsidence claims at the full year — down from $35.7m to $17.5m . |
| 28 | So Glaxo shares are down from £8 to under £6 and Wellcome down from £10 to £7.50 . |
| 29 | Jackets down from £135 to £85 . |
| 30 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |