Example sentences of "you get down " in BNC.

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1 Once you got down to Question 11 , the questioner would get a deeply unhelpful written response which would , if the civil servants knew their business , leave no one any the wiser .
2 The worst you got down here was strange sudden slithering movements in the shadows where there had n't been anything a minute ago ; crazed Vespan mechanics with tales of fabulous Frasque treasure abandoned in a bay near here , somewhere , just round the next bend ; gangs of Perk extortioners …
3 Somehow you got down here , where you have been since , quietly starving and poisoning yourself to death .
4 Brook Lane , but well what you could n't see you did n't know about , we used to take the cars down there it was nightmare and when you got down there , there was always the dogs roaming around and
5 ‘ Who have you got down there ? ’
6 Have you got down the back ?
7 ‘ And the times for you getting down to London for the attack on Oliver , if you include the times you — or whoever — were seen in the toilets at Tottenham Court Road , are looking very tight ; there was a delay on all the flights from Edinburgh into Heathrow that day … makes it impossible , really . ’
8 How are you getting down ?
9 How you getting down there ?
10 A couple of you get down there as fast as you can and watch the cottage .
11 There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) .
12 Many conflicts in meetings disappear rapidly once you get down to detail and factual cases .
13 Be aware of how you get down to the floor .
14 But I think when you get down to 20ms you 're in the ball park , and you can handle that . ’
15 Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’
16 Now' — she leant towards him , her finger wagging — ‘ first thing in the mornin' you get down to the station and have a word with Constable Fenwick ; he 'll know what 's goin' to happen to that lass .
17 You can use it for a lot of things , but when you get down to analyse it , I think it may be the law of the jungle where the strongest survive ; and I do n't know necessarily whether that 's a bad thing .
18 Knights come first , then come DBEs , then come CBEs and so on and so forth , until you get down to the lowest award , which I think is the British Empire Medal .
19 Now , you get down from the chair and lie on your back on the bench .
20 Yeah , well I mean , that 's a , that 's a difficult one , inside information , when you get down below the top ranks there are lots of people in the mid mi medium-ranks who would know about insider dealing , and I 'm sure use it .
21 Then when you get down into Well Bottom .
22 When you get down to more detailed planning it is useful to know that in a standard European kitchen , base units are 600 mm ( 24 in ) deep ; wall units 300 mm ( 12 in ) deep ; most appliances are 600 mm ( 24 in ) wide ; Units come in widths of 300 , 500 , 600 , 1000 or 1200 mm ( 12 , 20 , 24 , 39 , or 48 in ) , counter tops are 900 mm ( 36in ) high , the bases of wall-hung cabinets 405 mm ( 16 in ) above that .
23 The whole thing 's rank , once you get down to details — ’ he laughed , ‘ but I 'm not selling the story until I 've got a job with another firm . ’
24 But once you get down below the horizon you get to look round this area here where there 's some rope tangled round , some kind of padding , it does tend to get a little bit lost amongst all the pebbles .
25 But if these beings had left any fingerprints I had the strong feeling they would n't be the kind you get down at Scotland Yard .
26 When you get down to these groups of people , you have to work with each individual , if you , you 'll know , and find somewhere where you can capitalise on their strengths and hopefully get away with whatever disabilities they had .
27 And you go back to light a sandbag , and there they all are , and they 're all a bit hot , it 's about , it 's like Hades , and there 's fork-lift trucks flying everywhere and you 've got pretty girls who in , in , in the team when you get down there and they start showing off , that 's alright , do n't mind that , and , and you 've got all these fork- lift trucks flying everywhere , and you 've got men carrying rolls of carpet and you 've got , you know , all this
28 I 'll have some black coffee waiting when you get down .
29 ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’
30 You get down now !
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