Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 2 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 3 | 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) . |
| 4 | The item was keenly competed for by two telephone bidders but it was finally knocked down for £790 to a bidder in the saleroom . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , she 's certainly not drivin' herself all the way down through Chile to Punta Arenas . |
| 6 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah was plannin' to drive down through Arequipa to the Chilean border . ’ |
| 10 | Admission is free , sightseeing passers-by crossing the road to the entrance where a short path leads down amongst trees to a viewing platform . |
| 11 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 12 | One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other . |
| 13 | Once he 's airborne bring him down into hand to hand combat once your cavalry have made contact . |
| 14 | Dry , roasted peanuts are down from £1.09 to 99p . |
| 15 | These genes are duplicated along with the chromosomes at each cell division and can be passed down from parents to their offspring . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works . |
| 20 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 21 | A BMW 316 four-door saloon is down from £15,150 to Pounds 14,544 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 23 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 24 | Traditional pork sausages are down from £1.89 to £1.59 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Deficit down from $10.7m to $9.8m losses in France of $6.7m . |
| 27 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 28 | TESCO chicken supreme is down from £1.59 to £1.29 . |
| 29 | Philips dishwashers down from £399.99 to £299.99 . |
| 30 | Top rate down from 83p to 40p . |