Example sentences of "down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancel the wedding or the holiday , sell the theatre/football/movie tickets , put the dog in kennels and get down to the Wembley Exhibition Centre … sharpish ! |
| 2 | I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up . |
| 3 | And he would go away , he would n't say , Come on we 'll go down to the cleaners and tell them , he would go away himself you see . |
| 4 | Circular shafts were dug down to the seams and coal was then dug away from the sides until the pit was in danger of collapsing , which it eventually did after the pit had been abandoned . |
| 5 | The tough rugby player at first put the pain of his acute appendicitis down to the after-effects of his stag night . |
| 6 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 7 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 8 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 9 | Because when it came down to the work bit |
| 10 | Students seem much more inclined to knuckle down to the work and not get involved in quite such dramatic protests as they were before . |
| 11 | After trips to southern Africa and India , he practised briefly as a barrister , married , and settled down to the life of a gentleman , pursuing the two great passions of his life — the study of natural history and of great literature ( French , German , and Spanish , all read in the original languages , as well as English ) . |
| 12 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 13 | Right down to the middle of the nineteenth century travellers to Aswan felt they had reached the limits of civilization . |
| 14 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 15 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 16 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 17 | The south east ridge leads down into a bowl of porridge-like peat , so I bore off eastwards , still rough enough , into the paring wind , crossing the Allt an t-Strathain Mhoir high up to drop down to the church . |
| 18 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 19 | Sunday morning , up bright and early for Sunday in those days , seven o'clock , out for a walk and then down to the church for choir . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 21 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 22 | And I 'll go down to the church and park by the church , how about that ? |
| 23 | Going down to the Royale Theater with his hands still lightly wrapped in gauze bandages , Dustin found out that Walter McGinn , who would have been his understudy , now had the role . |
| 24 | She remembered me coming down to the burn and tramping the bags in the the , help to wash them . |
| 25 | Dawn was just breaking as she went down to the burn to fetch water . |
| 26 | Span wire construction of the overhead suspension was used throughout ( except in Oak Grove leading down to the depôt ) . |
| 27 | Diane , send this down to the labs . |
| 28 | Diane , send this down to the labs . |
| 29 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 30 | Well when , when Friar Lawrence returned when he was meant to be giving the letter to Romeo , I was just devastated , I did I just did n't know what to do so all I could do was rush down to the graveyard and try and stop Romeo , by the time I was there it was too late . |