Example sentences of "have [verb] down to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE fuss about BSE — mad cow disease — has died down to a whimper . |
| 2 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 3 | This same process has continued down to the present , now with the next generation of Hirmers , Albert and Irmgard , supplying many new plates , especially of the recently restored churches at Wies and Dießen . |
| 4 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 5 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 6 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 7 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 9 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 10 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 11 | They said I might have to go down to the police station and be interviewed there later in their inquiries . |
| 12 | I think it 'll have to go down to the post office , I 've write to Diane now |
| 13 | They 'd have to go down to the |
| 14 | I 'll have to go down to the roundabout and come back up . |
| 15 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 16 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I will have to walk down to the village and find a mechanic at the garage . ’ |
| 18 | It helps if it is small , and it is also a great advantage if it can easily reach the next tree without having to climb down to the ground and then climb up again . |
| 19 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 20 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 21 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 22 | She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom . |
| 23 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 24 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 25 | Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer . |
| 26 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 27 | Little enough of the borough 's wealth appears to have filtered down to the townsfolk . |
| 28 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 29 | These had boiled down to the supposed constitutionally irregular remark that ‘ something must be done ’ . |
| 30 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |