Example sentences of "[pron] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director Roger Pomphrey 's documentary crew filmed UB40 at home in Brum and followed them down to London with their families and friends . |
| 2 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 3 | Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets . |
| 4 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 5 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 6 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 7 | We took them down to Max 's Kansas City and gave one to Micky Ruskin the owner , we gave one to the DJ ; and we gave one to Lisa Robinson , the reporter . |
| 8 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 9 | He saw Rosie stretch up , catch the damp pants between her teeth and slowly draw them down to her grimy sacking , intent on ripping them to shreds . |
| 10 | Many people say generally that ‘ there should be no whaling for ethical reasons ’ , but when you try to pin them down to a formulation of those ethics , you find it exceedingly difficult and , I am afraid to say , probably unconvincing to most people of the nations of the world . |
| 11 | If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure . |
| 12 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 13 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 14 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 15 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 16 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 17 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 18 | For such particles , tachyons , infinite energy would be required to slow them down to light-speed . |
| 19 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 20 | Who sent them down to the Florida Keys and left them there in hurricane months ? |
| 21 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 22 | For this take young supple stems and bend them down to the soil . |
| 23 | Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions . |
| 24 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 25 | I watched them down to the causeway . |
| 26 | He 's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want . |
| 27 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 28 | It a is actually a lot better because you can get them usually get them down to about five p a copy . |
| 29 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 30 | As food particles are swept by , they are caught by the tentacles and passed by them down to the mouth . |