Example sentences of "they [vb past] down to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 2 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 3 | They walked down to the Old Rectory gates . |
| 4 | Its criti-cisms could easily be dubbed ‘ elitist ’ ( not in fact a vogue word at that time ) , but they boiled down to the traditional media dilemma about how far people know what they ‘ want ’ until they have been shown choices beyond their existing experience . |
| 5 | So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’ |