Example sentences of "down [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the name of international policy co-ordination , Japan held its interest rates down to support the dollar and to help America finance its external deficit . |
| 2 | Many Japanese families today are sitting down to enjoy a meal of dolphin , perhaps eating it raw , or salted and pickled in miso , or dried with seasonings and made into sausage . |
| 3 | By Christmas Eve all the jobs are done and Rita and Bill can settle down to enjoy an evening with friends . |
| 4 | A year later , when autumn came again to the Moor , Topaz Chilcott climbed her favourite slope and sank down to enjoy the copper and bronze glory of the dying year . |
| 5 | With a deep sigh , she snuggled against his back and settled down to enjoy the journey . |
| 6 | She laughed and , telling him her thoughts were private , settled down to enjoy the rest of the journey . |
| 7 | She deposited the tray on the desk , then took her own tea and a small piece of cake back to her former post , slotted a new tape into the machine for the next instalment of the story and settled down to enjoy the rest of the afternoon in peace . |
| 8 | We caught the half-past one train and settled down to enjoy the run . |
| 9 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 10 | Then Aunt Bessie had a stroke , more than one in fact , and burned herself rather badly , because she apparently suffered one when she was bending down to tend the fire . |
| 11 | Alerted by an ominous creaking sound coming from near his feet , Dauntless glanced down to see a trapdoor in the floor being opened from beneath . |
| 12 | But anyway , my Dawn , Dawn 's mother went down to see a show in London not so long ago , stayed er , stayed two nights in a hotel , it was o it was only like ninety odd pound for them . |
| 13 | Just before she had gone up to rest and change for dinner , Robert 's daughter , Alice , had come down to see the company . |
| 14 | Hanging helplessly in the safety straps , Ace looked down to see the cabin ceiling buckling and tearing . |
| 15 | So I went down to see the secretary who I found out was in the flying horse and er told him who I was , Ooh yes , ooh yes , you 're playing this afternoon , are n't you ? |
| 16 | Eventually it became too much , and one afternoon we looked down to see the bowwab moving out . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've invited Audrey down to see the horse anytime , ’ says Mr Lambourne . |
| 18 | Barely looking at his wife , Harold said , ‘ I thought I 'd drive Felicity down to see the College after we 've had a cup of tea . ’ |
| 19 | Even with the boat sailing flat a certain amount of spray goes aboard , so get the bailer down to drain the cockpit . |
| 20 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 21 | Herodotus of Halicarnassus , his Researches are here set down to preserve the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of our own and of other peoples ; and more particularly , to show how they came into conflict . |
| 22 | Then she sat down to write a letter to an old friend , the editor of her chosen journal . |
| 23 | An howitzer shell screamed down to smash the wheel of the last gun limber . |
| 24 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 25 | No heralds , however , came down to inform the town . |
| 26 | ‘ I bent down to smell a brose in my garden , ’ replied the woman . |
| 27 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 28 | The girls chattered briefly in Thai and the scent of coconut oil blurred past Jezrael as the younger ran down to catch the sea in her bucket . |
| 29 | ‘ I took Jimi Hendrix down to meet The Cream and as soon as Jimi started playing , Eric Clapton 's hands fell off his guitar and I saw him kinda reel and leave the stage . |
| 30 | The landing was bumpy and they skipped over a small iceberg at the end of the runway where it sloped down to meet the fiord . |