Example sentences of "down to [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bus took the coast road , around the tall grey Ox Mountains , beside dark sea cliffs with grassy rounded undulating contours , dropping down to Sligo Bay . |
| 2 | In spite of all the times he had been there Adam missed the turn-off that was the drift leading down to Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | The orders came from Command right down to squadron level ; the preparations started about mid-morning as soon as this vast sheet of paper from the teleprinter indicating every facet of the job ahead arrived . |
| 4 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 5 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 6 | Before he could fit in a visit , he was forestalled by Len Brayton , Maisie 's father , who rode down to Aumery Park Farm one Wednesday in mid-January , after attending the market at Kirkbymoorside . |
| 7 | Also , he had Amy 's body sent down to Worcester College , Oxford , where it was interned with costly pageantry and ostentation . |
| 8 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 9 | Quite a few of us from used to go down to cricket match . |
| 10 | Jamie walks me down to Brockley Cross , inhaling fresh air through his nostrils like Islanders sniff cocaine . |
| 11 | She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) . |
| 12 | The urgency to complete it was put down to US pressure to achieve a result in time for the opening of the Republican Party convention on Aug. 17 , apparently in an attempt to boost the troubled election campaign of President George Bush by convincing the US electorate that his skills in the foreign policy field had domestic benefits . |
| 13 | Seemed to be going down to south coast of the river |
| 14 | The easiest way of solving that problem was to go down to Victoria station . |
| 15 | In the end , I trudged down to Victoria railway station and sheltered there . |
| 16 | It started to rain so I went down to Apsley House at the bottom right-hand corner of the park with the intention of having a look at the paintings there . |
| 17 | He had a pleasure boat for about ten years before he died , used to run fucking tourists down to Hampton Court , that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 18 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 19 | No no , we just er came down to Personnel Office and |
| 20 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 21 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 22 | After twenty minutes or so , turn the oven down to gas mark 4 , 180°C/325°F and roast for a further twenty minutes per pound . |
| 23 | Down to Berwick town , where he will serve meantime as governor . ’ |
| 24 | Austria has 10 resorts with skiing down to valley level . |
| 25 | When it returns to surface daylight , it flows quietly down to valley level at Ribblehead ; here it adopts the name of River Ribble and turns south on its long journey to Preston and the Irish Sea . |
| 26 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 27 | I said , in fact , when she 's got herself sorted out we 'll go down to Poole Art Centre and see |
| 28 | The sharpness of the contrast had not struck Breeze before , but as she walked down to Overclyst village she pondered over it . |
| 29 | With dye terminators , 96 templates can be sequenced in a single microtitre dish and excess dye terminators are removed 24 samples at a time by gravity chromatography using a perspex block of microcolumns scaled down to microtitre format ( 12 ) . |
| 30 | The ‘ political officer ’ ( zampolit ) , posted down to company level , is the linchpin of political control , charged with overseeing military-political training and the enforcement of Party policy . |