Example sentences of "[vb past] down to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 2 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 3 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 4 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 5 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 6 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 7 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 8 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 9 | At the top of the hill Ossian still had the lead , and he kept in front as the runners made down to the final bend , though Pistol Packer and Caro were improving their positions . |
| 10 | The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs . |
| 11 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 12 | So Lewis drove down to the bottom of South Parks Road , where he was ushered through into the University Parks by a policeman on duty at the entrance to the single-track road which led down to the bathing area . |
| 13 | Beyond the tower a narrow path led down to the rocky shore below . |
| 14 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 15 | His hand moved from her neck and wandered down to the soft fullness of her body . |
| 16 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 17 | Our path dropped down to the relative calm of the sea shore , edging craggy inlets beneath overhanging cliff tops . |
| 18 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 19 | Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see . |
| 20 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 21 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 22 | Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande . |
| 23 | I went to change money , then strolled down to the small port to talk to the boat owners about getting to Amantani . |
| 24 | The train chugged down to the mountain-ringed plains where sheep and alpaca were herded by bowler-hatted women . |
| 25 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 26 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 27 | They walked down to the Old Rectory gates . |
| 28 | She walked down to the open market itself . |
| 29 | On the other side of the road the cobbled slopes of West Brook Place rushed down to the walled beck before the land swept up again , steep and thickly wooded , to the terraces of Old Ashfield . |
| 30 | This is best explained by reference to the diagram , topsoil being removed from a small area at a time and the chalk quarried down to the new level . |