Example sentences of "get [indef pn] down " in BNC.

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1 And if a builder gon na go down there you say , Well look I 've got one down here but I 've got a prime slot
2 We 've got one down to one eighty .
3 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
4 I got one down there once for some reason .
5 She said , she did n't know but she getting somebody down here now !
6 And she 's getting somebody down now !
7 Get one down here as well .
8 For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can .
9 Cos as soon as soon as you get anything down to about there where your swallowing thing is
10 ‘ You should get something down on this .
11 So we had to get some ways to try and get something down .
12 The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery .
13 If you do n't have a concrete area in front of your stables , move heaven and earth to get one down before next winter !
14 In a desire to get something down on paper quickly the student is underestimating the power and importance of the introduction .
15 Here is an example of an introduction which was written in a rush to get something down on paper .
16 This means there will be time to get everything down but that your brain will have to work at full speed and concentration to analyse all the words .
17 She sketched even faster , wanting to get everything down before it began to pour with rain .
18 down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday
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