Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 2 | Or if you keep them , there are four hundred of us here and two thousand on their way , and we will cut you down to a man . ’ |
| 3 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 4 | Fishtail carving tools , chisels , skew chisels , and gouges , taper from the cutting edge down to a thin shank . |
| 5 | The popularity is put down to a good flavour — with its tight creamy head it 's similar to Tetley 's — the lack of any other light bitters in Nicholson 's range that compete with it and a slight price advantage of around five pence . |
| 6 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 7 | The whole assembly can then be given several coats of varnish to help hold the windings in place and glued down to a square mounting board , etc . |
| 8 | In Four Saints Thomson 's informality was given free reign since he first of all improvised the music at the piano then , when it stuck , wrote it down to a figured bass . |
| 9 | He frequently gives interviews , and has got television performances down to a fine art . |
| 10 | They settled down to a tour de force , delivered with the power of Concorde on full throttle . |
| 11 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 12 | Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ? |
| 13 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 14 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 15 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 16 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 17 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 18 | The Duty Officer , having dispatched the still warm power pack to Soltau , is settling down to a quiet evening when the phone rings : ‘ Corporal Johnson , Military Police , sir . |
| 19 | A small amount of excavation down to a new lower-level concrete floor slab then provided sufficient height for two habitable storeys in the central zone of the building ( Fig 42 ) . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is because I was married on November 5 , and all the way down to a miserable , wet Bournemouth where we spent our honeymoon , there were village bonfires set out ready . |
| 21 | Indeed Bob Arum , the promoter , who put it all down to a conflict of styles , recently dismissed his ranked middleweight Michael Nunn for such a negative performance . |
| 22 | Practice needs to be as strong as possible , not levelled down to a lowest common denominator . |
| 23 | Situated in the space between the constraints of childhood and having a career , these are people who dream for a while of wanting a vague something more from life , yet are saddened by these dreams because they know deep down they 'll probably relinquish them , buckle down to a life of mediocrity . |
| 24 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 25 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 26 | Right at the end , as McLeish 's teeth were starting to chatter , Davidson confirmed that Penelope Huntley would meet him at eight next morning and he hoped that that was n't too early , sorry , but the lass had been difficult to tie down to a time . |
| 27 | Jason Epstein , the editorial director at Random House and a friend of Seth 's father , took an interest , helping Seth to pare the book down to a readable length , then publishing Homeboy . |
| 28 | There is the feel of a cold offshore mist to the hospital room , a life-is-a-bitch feel , made sharp by the hostile ganglia of medical technology , plasma bags dripping , vile tubing snaking in and out of the body , blinking monitors levelling illusion , muffling existence down to a sort of digital bingo . |
| 29 | Because a lifetime of debauchery somehow loses its romantic kudos once it winds down to a respectable job and keep-fit classes ; it stops being a biopic and starts sounding like a how-I-conquered-my-bad-habits-and-became-a-normal-person telefilm . |
| 30 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |