Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 2 | He said you 'd have no idea where to start and , in any event , he had bribed two shepherds to say I 'd gone down to Foxton Mire . |
| 3 | I had travelled down to Punta Arenas , which the biblical authority of the South American Handbook said was the best jumping-off point . |
| 4 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 5 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 6 | I 've gone down to one egg in me freezer |
| 7 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 8 | He says , ‘ I 've settled down to my own lyrical thing ’ : small , free-standing , autonomous stained glass panels , whose figuration recalls medieval glass and Renaissance painting , and whose brushwork has a timeless , flourishing spontaneity . |
| 9 | Since then I 've settled down to 8st 4 . |
| 10 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 11 | ’ The Royal Oak in Keswick wins special praise — after watching horse-racing at Crow Park Green dined in company there , and had ‘ one of the best ever dinners I have sat down to in the North of England . ’ |
| 12 | Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong . |
| 13 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 14 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 15 | And now you 've come down to London with no accommodation apart from that grotty little hotel , and signed a lease on a shop you 've never seen before , with no independent survey , no up-to-date trading figures and no solicitor to check the terms of the agreement ? ’ |
| 16 | She had moved down to London and lived in squats . |
| 17 | After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards . |
| 18 | He watched her go alone , the trappings she had brought down to the beach left abandoned . |
| 19 | At first he had assumed that she had climbed down to the lower deck and gone forward . |
| 20 | Some months later , when she judged that things would have quietened down , she had come down to London and had set about re-establishing her business . |
| 21 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 22 | She had slimmed down to 10st 7lbs ( 66.7kg ) for her wedding eight years earlier and had gradually gained weight since . |
| 23 | Mr Farmer said : ‘ You have got down to the core of the problem . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 25 | You get wet , sweaty , but there 's nothing to dry the sweat off , not sweating and drying off , so they feel clammy , okay , so we 've looked at their colour and we 've felt their skin and we 've felt that it 's horrible and clammy and cold , what about their pulse , we 've gone down to the pulse now |
| 26 | Now then er regular listeners will know that over the last couple of years or so we 've done some special listener trips for you er and we 've gone down to London . |
| 27 | I think we 've settled down to a pattern of events now which schools have actually indicated to us is what they want to see . |
| 28 | We 've come down to the wine |
| 29 | Jonathan , we 've come down to sa talk . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've got down to the stone foundation , ’ Nigel said . |