Example sentences of "[adv prt] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep , wake , cook , eat , go in , switch on light , examine prisoner , get down to work , finish work , write up notebook , sleep , wake , cook , eat . |
| 2 | While all this is going on , far away to the north the volunteers of the Royal Engineers have arrived and are getting straight down to work . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope we get a replacement , ’ Müller said heartlessly as they settled down to work . |
| 4 | ‘ Evelyn , get down to work . ’ |
| 5 | Even the most competent high-flier , it seems , feels totally inadequate when faced with a child who simply will not get down to work . |
| 6 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 7 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 8 | 1 am keen now to get down to work . |
| 9 | It 's amazing how much time can be spent getting down to work — without actually doing any ! |
| 10 | Get down to work , she told herself . |
| 11 | Two minutes later , after Paul had threatened the loss of the contract , he had picked up his brush again and , grumbling , got down to work . |
| 12 | As the legal experts pore over the intricacies of recording unmet need , care managers are getting down to work . |
| 13 | With a shrug , Melissa left the office , fetched notebooks and a writing-pad from her car , and tried to settle down to work . |
| 14 | ‘ I realise something is wrong , and I do n't have to look too far to know the cause , ’ she added darkly , ‘ but you must get down to work or the show will be a failure , and you do n't want that to happen , do you ? ’ |
| 15 | She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer , sharpened her pencil and got down to work . |
| 16 | The chicken was delicious , and Lisa was feeling revitalised as she made herself some coffee and settled down to work . |
| 17 | It was only once she was sure that Emily was asleep that she would pull out her plastic bag and get down to work . |
| 18 | He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , now , delightful as this badinage is , I think we should get down to work . |
| 20 | Back indoors , she brewed coffee and ate a hasty breakfast before settling down to work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The timing of the Bayeux speech — after the popular rejection of the first assembly 's draft and before a second assembly got down to work — suggests strongly that de Gaulle made it with the aim of influencing the constitution-making process . |
| 23 | You get ‘ funny ’ results for the first couple of weeks … lets hope that we learn lessons , and get down to work . |
| 24 | ‘ Once I 've managed the stairs I can sit down to work . ’ |
| 25 | It was when Trudie Sheppard retired that she really got down to work . |
| 26 | When he arrived , getting down to work was the last thing on his mind . |
| 27 | Initially girls would waste a lot of time being polite to one another rather than getting things done : too polite to choose a chief and get down to work . |
| 28 | I mean , if I 'd have been , If I 'd have know I could of coming back down cos Bill came back down to work Tuesday |
| 29 | down to , let's go down to work and update the the weather Chris . |
| 30 | but it 's , I , I do n't want to go down to work for hours Chris . |