Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink . |
| 2 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey . |
| 4 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
| 5 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll just go down to the surgery and pick up my case . |
| 7 | We ca n't not ever go down to the beach again , or to the spinney . " |
| 8 | Do n't you ever go down to the hostels or down |
| 9 | No I think that they 'll probably go down to the Mum and |
| 10 | No , I think that there 'll probably go down to the mum and slept there |
| 11 | He would often go down to the Hare and Hounds at the west end of Hury — it 's gone now of course — but he was a grand man and his scarum ways did not alter my affection for him one bit . |
| 12 | A group of youngsters can often come down to the river and go over the top |
| 13 | ‘ And , even if I did n't , for you , signorina , I 'd immediately send down to the cellar to get it . ’ |
| 14 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |
| 15 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 16 | And chaps like me can then go down to the villa , for those two weeks , every year for the next twenty-five years , without paying a penny ! |
| 17 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 18 | And he can safely set down to the Spirit 's guidance anything which brings Jesus into sharper focus . |
| 19 | ‘ Would never go down to the cellars like everyone else when the air-raid siren went . |
| 20 | Well she always used to say , why you do n't say anything , but she always used to say to , she 'd never come down to the house , I mean I do n't think she 's been to my house , house five times |
| 21 | Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come . |
| 22 | He 'd occasionally pop down to the dungeon just to say , ‘ Aujourd'hui , c'est Vendredi , Mars quatorze , mille neuf cent quatre vingt et neuf ans . ’ |