Example sentences of "down to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not have a brush tongue but an extremely long one divided into two from its middle down to its tip . |
| 2 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 3 | The African version of the stegosaur had long spikes all the way down to its tail , with spikes even on its back legs . |
| 4 | Weatherall runs riot again on an extended ‘ Come Together ’ , stripping the original hit single down to its component parts and sampling black activist Malcolm X to put across its corny but effective ‘ peacy & unity ’ vibe . |
| 5 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 6 | Yet poetry which uses old phrases is not always bound down to its creator 's intention . |
| 7 | The omission of IBM from the initial list is down to its lack of commitment to open systems , according to John Hille , D&B 's director : ‘ When we chose the platforms there were other vendors more committed to open systems . |
| 8 | Food particles , sticking to the wall of the bag , are swept down to its bottom by cilia and into a little gut which leads out of the bottom of the bag and curves round to join the exhalant tube . |
| 9 | This group — and there were some sterling institutions reportedly among the participants — would have trimmed USL down to its core operating system , dumped the loss-making language sector , sold off the $5m-a-year Tuxedo line that some insiders consider a crown jewel and cut back on ES/MP which everybody wanted and no one is buying . |
| 10 | She was down to its level now , her finger jabbing at the zip of his trousers . |
| 11 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 12 | The main object of this project is to trace out the life-history of the Keynesian Revolution--from its sources in Keynes ' own ‘ life and times ’ down to its expiry in the wake of the second oil shock in 1979 . |
| 13 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 14 | Beyond the rocks a hairpin bend carried the track to the left , and a hundred yards farther on another sharp bend took it down to its junction with the forest road . |
| 15 | In order to avoid any trouble with the Warden 's forces , they decided to give Jedburgh itself a wide berth , so followed Rule Water down to its junction with Teviot at Menslaws , where they camped the night . |
| 16 | They had to be ready — and able — to do absolutely anything from greeting a minister off a plane to cleaning drains , from handling the press to guiding the helicopter down to its landing site with hand signals . |
| 17 | In another a family is just sitting down to its evening meal . |
| 18 | Taking RNA as food , as Cameron had given it , would simply mean that it would be broken down to its precursor molecules in the gut before being absorbed into the bloodstream . |