Example sentences of "down to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wisharts were about to settle down to their reading when the corridor door slid open and an elderly lady eased her way into the compartment ; the newcomer was wearing a striking black silk dress and black hat which were very reminiscent of the Victorian age . |
| 2 | ‘ But we 've never changed out attitudes towards our audience , so it 's all down to their approach to us . |
| 3 | ‘ But we 've never changed out attitudes towards our audience , so it 's all down to their approach to us . |
| 4 | Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps , pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room . |
| 5 | Even those who slim right down to their goal weight will always find parts they wish were even slimmer ! |
| 6 | Reeves puts their humour down to their upbringing in Darlington and Middlesbrough respectively . |
| 7 | They themselves might ‘ motor ’ down to their country retreat at the weekends but they looked with signal disfavour on the idea that the vast mass of the populace might enjoy a similar mobility and have access to pleasures which for the moment were peculiarly their own . |
| 8 | When , in 1353 and 1354 , the negotiators got down to their work again , this time in Guines , near Calais , the English made demands which the French at first seemed willing to concede : Aquitaine , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , as well as other lands would be ruled by the English in full sovereignty . |
| 9 | You 've got to bring yourself down to their level . |
| 10 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 11 | Without realizing , Miss Harker stepped down to their level . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeltsin and Kravchuk are dragging us down to their level , and Admiral Chernavin just gives in , ’ he said , adding : ‘ I believe the military will seize power . ’ |
| 13 | The chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News announced in his 1986 annual report that ‘ The Times now has a cost structure much lower than our own … we must get our own costs down to their level as soon as possible ’ . |
| 14 | We first see Ajax and Thersites trading metaphors of boils and scabs ; Achilles enters in verse ( II.i.55f. ) , but soon comes down to their level . |
| 15 | It 's the only dignified way of telling them that you 're not going to be made a fool of any longer and you 're not going to be dragged down to their level . ’ |
| 16 | That 's when I go down to their level . |
| 17 | ‘ The small clubs deliberately maintain bad pitches to bring the big clubs down to their level , ’ said Gilmar . |
| 18 | Every item of clothing , down to their underwear , is in designer day-glo and vibrant clashing tincture . |
| 19 | and I do n't give any of this shit with lights If they 're doing seventy miles an hour , and I 'm going faster and they 're , all the overtaking lanes are taken , then I 'll slow down to their speed , I wo n't |
| 20 | The central bank should abandon attempts to use the money supply to peg interest rates and exchange rates since , if left alone , these rates will ‘ naturally ’ settle down to their equilibrium values ( see Friedman ( 1968 ) for a powerfully expressed plea for central banks to desist from trying to peg interest rates ) . |
| 21 | This proved to be only a minor diversion and they quickly settled down to their food and drink again . |
| 22 | The fermentation of organic matter by gut micro-orgamisms is mediated by a number of interdependent reactions in which complex polymers are first broken down to their constituent monomers by hydrolytic enzymes synthesised by the bacteria . |
| 23 | Every Tuesday , Lord and Lady Spencer would drive down to their house in Mayfair . |
| 24 | If they really want to dance , they ‘ hairv a dance ’ , which means Mummy and Daddy spend thousands of pounds on a marquee and all the trimmings , and their friends pile down to their place in the country and run amok in the rhododendrons . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll put his comments away in the locker and bring them out again when we go down to their place , ’ said the Scotland international . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 27 | Half an hour later they sat down to their tea . |
| 28 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 29 | Not that this stopped him going through the hoops for photographers when Forest got Nigel Mansell down to their ground the other week . |
| 30 | I 've seen them sitting down to their dinner no no |