Example sentences of "get down [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | BEN and JACQUI ( far right ) get down to the latest sounds . |
| 4 | BEN and JACQUI ( far right ) get down to the latest sounds . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Getting down to the bare bones : There was nothing but a skeleton staff to assist him when Brian Chappill , marketing manager , Midlands West & Wales , handed over a Wimpey Construction UK cheque for £l , 000 to Linda Edwards of Bath-based charity the National Osteoporosis Society . |
| 7 | Meantime , we 'll be getting down to the fine details . ’ |
| 8 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |