Example sentences of "[pron] down to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 32 | She believed cheap clothes could be made elegant by paring them down to essentials . |
| 33 | Simple folding will bring them down to A4 . |
| 34 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 35 | Pat and Gabriel Horn would code the brain samples and send them down to me for analysis . |
| 36 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 37 | big woman out there at the wi the weaving , one of the weavers , and if there 's one of the chaps who there getting married oh she straps them down to the weaving . |
| 38 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 39 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 40 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 41 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 42 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 43 | disk is fifty six million bytes in size , and er you used most of them down to three million left available . |
| 44 | So he stuck by it so he loosed these two and them down to the shore . |
| 45 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 46 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 47 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 48 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 49 | An hour later , as he drove the pair of them down to Oxford , Lewis felt strangely content . |
| 50 | We now have 13 real ( if you see what I mean ) teams + the ‘ Cheats ’ a ‘ Rejects ’ 11 of ex Leeds Players , and a current Leeds United 11 ( Mark S , I have made slight changes to your selections to get them down to 20M . ) |
| 51 | like if you take them down to six |
| 52 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 53 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 54 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 55 | Galway will still go in as underdogs — an unusual position for them — but one that should suit them down to the ground . |
| 56 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 57 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |
| 58 | Some of them down to six and seven . |
| 59 | We 'll have to say sorry Bill you know w send them down to Dave if Dave 's got time to pull 'em in he will do , if not we 'll you know we 'll have to reply negative . |
| 60 | The Benefits Agency is trying to play down the NAO findings , putting them down to administrative delays rather than errors . |