Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] down to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 2 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 3 | Accounting stripped down to the core The latest chapters in the ASB 's Statement of Principles deal with some fundamental issues |
| 4 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 5 | Gazza 's former Spurs team-mate Gary Lineker turned his talents to cricket yesterday and made 103 for Cross Arrows at Lord 's , but his side went down to the Stock Exchange by five wickets |
| 6 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
| 7 | At first she thought it was like a watch-tower , because the roof sloped down to the tops of the two windows , making them the most important things . |
| 8 | And yet , as our talk wound down to a close , Koons begged for more . |
| 9 | His small but powerful 5' 8 ’ frame was ideally suited to the cramped conditions of a space capsule , his body weight pared down to the absolute minimum for his build . |
| 10 | Flat marsh spread down to the Thames , |
| 11 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 12 | Then his gaze moved down to the painting . |
| 13 | At Gebe/ Serag the cultivation on the east bank disappeared altogether and the desert came down to the river , leaving only the railway line and a few scrubby bushes clinging to the water 's edge . |
| 14 | ‘ If there is a connection , I 'm dealing with — ’ Then he broke off and his gaze slipped down to the car ferry brochure . |
| 15 | Behind him , beyond the open door , the green hillside ran down to the river and the spring sunshine touched the broad sweep of the shallows with a million dancing lights . |
| 16 | By the time he got to the ice-cream he was too weary to eat , so he downed the bourbon — which instantly took its toll — and retired to bed , leaving the television on in the next room , its sound turned down to a soporific burble . |
| 17 | Earlier , Nottingham Forest went down to a Fritz Walter penalty in the third placed play-off against Stuttgart . |
| 18 | The sound died down to a deep rumbling , a mummummummum that still had a feel-it-in-the-bone quality . |
| 19 | The silver thread of a stream ran down to a crescent-shaped beach . |
| 20 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 21 | They have been doubled by Oldham , been beaten by Sheffield United and last night went down to a Middlesbrough side which had lost its previous six matches . |
| 22 | On the evening of a masked ball in the palace she came visiting with Bothwell and other lords , and while she chatted to her husband they — with or without her knowledge went down to the cellar to prepare the gunpowder stored there . |
| 23 | A gull floated down to the balcony rail , his shadow an enormous presence beating about the room . |
| 24 | More marks bit tied down to the limit now . |
| 25 | From the square in front of the hotel , an avenue led down to the Corniche where people strolled arm iii arm along the Nile . |
| 26 | The train chugged down to the mountain-ringed plains where sheep and alpaca were herded by bowler-hatted women . |
| 27 | This is best explained by reference to the diagram , topsoil being removed from a small area at a time and the chalk quarried down to the new level . |
| 28 | There was no prom , and neatly cut grass grew down to the black shiny shore . |
| 29 | At its greatest extent in the late eleventh century the Croatian kingdom reached down to the Neretva , where its frontier met that of medieval Serbia . |
| 30 | Behind the house , the ground sloped down to the river and the waving tasselled heads of the rushes gleamed with a light that was between silver and gold . |