Example sentences of "got down " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 2 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 4 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 5 | Another mortar team has moved into the orchard this evening , 13th June , and got down to work straight away by sending off several rounds of high explosives in quick succession in the direction of the enemy positions . |
| 6 | I immediately got down . |
| 7 | The two soldiers carrying the wounded Officer dropped him and got down flat , leaving the Officer bleeding and moaning loudly in the middle of the road . |
| 8 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 9 | He got down to work at once and even found another couple , both teachers , who wanted to ‘ settle up ’ in Church . |
| 10 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 11 | Just got down to it . ’ |
| 12 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The consultation period came to an end on 16 September and we then got down to work assessing the reaction . |
| 15 | I got down on my knees behind him and pushed the ashtray under his raised leg . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When Mungo got down , he could see that more books were collecting dust under the bed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Tillingham got down to churchy business , the funeral would take place at three in the afternoon … |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 22 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 23 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 24 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 25 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 26 | Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans , when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted ‘ We are very sorry about that ; we hope no one was hurt . |
| 27 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 28 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 29 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 30 | Mr Foggerty , feeling that a good opportunity had just escaped him , got down on his knees and started his lesson . |