Example sentences of "down to breakfast " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
| 2 | Once again I sat down to breakfast surrounded by sporting trophies and medals , many of them won by the young man of the house during his schooldays . |
| 3 | It did n't bear thinking of , but I thought of nothing else as I prepared to go down to breakfast . |
| 4 | Coming down to breakfast I find raw , slanting cuts I never made on the loaf in the crock . ) |
| 5 | We sat down to breakfast in the garden , and listened to the World Service news . |
| 6 | By the time I am sitting down to breakfast I ask myself , ‘ Where would I go ? ’ ’ |
| 7 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 8 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 9 | I took my dreams down to breakfast : I 'd scribble while eating , like an Inspector from the Good Bed-and-Breakfast Guide . |
| 10 | Willie sat down to breakfast in a clean grey shirt and jersey , pressed grey shorts and polished boots . |
| 11 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 12 | Sitting down to breakfast could become an expensive family business with the cost of raw cereals likely to rise — along with sugar and honey . |
| 13 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 14 | ‘ But it 's time to sit down to breakfast . |
| 15 | Next morning , when the O'Dells sat down to breakfast , the photograph had pride of place on the kitchen mantelpiece . |
| 16 | ‘ Do sit down to breakfast , Mr Gargery , ’ said Herbert politely . |
| 17 | The boys went down to breakfast , which the girl Charlotte had made for them . |
| 18 | One morning , Mother came down to breakfast . |
| 19 | The next morning , having hardly slept , she went down to breakfast feeling dreadful . |
| 20 | I dressed and shaved and went down to breakfast under the colonnade . |
| 21 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 22 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 23 | The next day , when Edward came down to breakfast , Gordon Lang , the Archbishop of Canterbury , was waiting for him . |
| 24 | WHEN HE CAME down to breakfast next morning Wycliffe found the hall full of suitcases ; the conference was breaking up . |
| 25 | It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got some news for you all , ’ said Dairyman Crick as they sat down to breakfast one Sunday morning . |
| 27 | They sat down to breakfast , tired and sad . |
| 28 | When she went down to breakfast there was the background noise of caterers clearing away the vestiges of the ball . |
| 29 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 30 | Being on breakfast duty , Alice and Emily were the first two pupils down to breakfast . |