Example sentences of "[det] [verb] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a simple matter after that to slip down to Mike Quinn , who was an acknowledged authority on all aspects of the disease by virtue of his ownership of one book , and borrow his Encyclopaedia of Human Ailments . |
| 2 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 3 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
| 4 | It is possible , by examination and experiment , to work out the process of manufacture in many cases , and as much of the technology used in the past is still in use today , this boils down to testing hypotheses ( rather than guesswork ) . |
| 5 | What this boils down to , briefly , is this : that one can not treat " Shakespeare " as a " rigid designator " without at the same time assuming that some essence " attaches to it , and hence that certain descriptions necessarily go with it , although no such description , or set of descriptions , can fully reproduce its " meaning " . |
| 6 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 7 | No , it 's er , no this tingling down to your fingers , that 's a different thing Catherine . |
| 8 | But this comes down to saying no more than that the dog eats the meat not the eggplant . |
| 9 | but I think this , this comes down to the |
| 10 | All of this comes down to one simple phrase : working more efficiently so we can do more and do it better . |
| 11 | that passes down to the south west sir , yes . |
| 12 | Did that run down to the river ? |
| 13 | That reaches down to the floor as I understand it . |
| 14 | ‘ That leads down to the cisterns , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 16 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 17 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 18 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 19 | It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’ |
| 20 | It all came down to bloody money . |
| 21 | The King , the Queen and their lords and ladies all came down to the beach to wave goodbye . |
| 22 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 23 | ‘ We all drove down to Eastover on Friday , May 17th … ’ |
| 24 | It 's all put down to nature . ’ |
| 25 | Christmas came and went , with Bob Lamb being invited to share the Oaks ' family celebrations on Christmas Day , and all going down to Cherry Tree Farm on Boxing Day . |
| 26 | But the clash everyone was waiting for was the re-match of the Bass Irish cup final between the writers of Bangor 's A Close Shave and the two Ards fanzines We 're All Going Down To Davy Lee 's and The Butcher 's Apron . |
| 27 | I wonder what his parents thought of him , but does n't it all boil down to what life at home has been like . |
| 28 | They all settled down to eating while Willie , amidst all the chatter and laughter , found himself an object of praise . |
| 29 | Of course it all boils down to image . |
| 30 | It all boils down to a simple equation : |