Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the serious [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | From then on it 's all down to the serious business of sunbathing on the sand interspersed with the occasional trip to one of the beach bars . |
| 4 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 5 | Some of the journalists had already left ; others had settled down to the serious business of getting drunk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |