Example sentences of "[vb past] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 4 | Two minutes later , after Paul had threatened the loss of the contract , he had picked up his brush again and , grumbling , got down to work . |
| 5 | She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer , sharpened her pencil and got down to work . |
| 6 | The timing of the Bayeux speech — after the popular rejection of the first assembly 's draft and before a second assembly got down to work — suggests strongly that de Gaulle made it with the aim of influencing the constitution-making process . |
| 7 | It was when Trudie Sheppard retired that she really got down to work . |
| 8 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 9 | We got down to number tend and they were all one liners . |
| 10 | If all the do-gooders in the town got down to grass roots and worked towards a better future for the next generation , this town would be a better one to live in . |
| 11 | Nor did the cheering cease when the runners got down to business and the three-mile race commenced , for at almost every fence Arkle and Mill House produced leaps which drew from the spectators whoops of appreciation . |
| 12 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 13 | It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business . |
| 14 | After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business . |
| 15 | That would be a very good thing , she shouted back , but her inner self did n't agree and , muttering under her breath at her unruly self , she pushed unanswerable questions to the back of her mind and got down to business . |
| 16 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 17 | The ‘ political officer ’ ( zampolit ) , posted down to company level , is the linchpin of political control , charged with overseeing military-political training and the enforcement of Party policy . |
| 18 | Its officers , ‘ political deputies ’ , posted down to battalion or company level , constitute a separate chain of command , supplying personnel evaluations on a confidential basis to their political superiors . |
| 19 | He had the body of an athlete , every sinew honed down to perfection , but he was n't brainless . |
| 20 | IRELAND cut the blooming English rose down to size at Lansdowne Road yesterday with a majestic performance of heroic proportions . |
| 21 | And , while her hopes dropped down to basement level , ‘ Now , ’ he added , ‘ I 'm taking Azor for his walk . ’ |
| 22 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 23 | Said everything came down to sex , did n't he ? ’ |
| 24 | I just slipped out , walked down a corridor , out through a side exit and came down to home . |
| 25 | Henrietta came down to lunch , still shivering slightly , in a sweater and jeans , and refused to discuss her experience , telling Jacqueline not to be bloody silly when she asked if she 'd seen crocodiles . |
| 26 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 27 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 28 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 29 | One morning , Mother came down to breakfast . |
| 30 | The next day , when Edward came down to breakfast , Gordon Lang , the Archbishop of Canterbury , was waiting for him . |