Example sentences of "get [adv prt] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 2 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 3 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 4 | Mr Tillingham got down to churchy business , the funeral would take place at three in the afternoon … |
| 5 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 6 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 7 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 8 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 9 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 10 | ‘ You got through to that man , then ? |
| 11 | Now he 's associated with the wrong sort of guys , so he 's gotten on to that stuff . |
| 12 | The final got off to explosive start when in the seventh minute Glasgow were awarded a penalty . |
| 13 | Everton got off to good start but are slipping down the table … |
| 14 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 15 | We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements . |
| 16 | By hook or by crook crews , competent or not , were got on to striking ships , by force if by no other method ; and the union men retorted in kind . |
| 17 | By the time the radius had got down to thirty kilometers , the escape velocity would have increased to 300,000 kilometers per second , the velocity of light . |
| 18 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 19 | I mean we noticed that with the referrals and everything but it was purely that you had n't got down to that point to ask for them . |
| 20 | Dr Kumar said John Major 's attacks on the Liberal Democrats had clearly got through to middle-income earners terrified by the thought of a Labour Government . |
| 21 | Is it possible that in 1985 the message has got through to more hearts and minds than ever before ? |
| 22 | ‘ Obviously the message has not got through to some parts of the organisation . ’ |
| 23 | Well , I say that , but of course me and my sore back got up to all kinds of stuff . |
| 24 | They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are . |
| 25 | got round to old times |
| 26 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 27 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 28 | RED nosed Royal Bank staff got up to all sorts of antics to raise cash for Comic Relief '93 . |
| 29 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 30 | Yeah must of done , he got up to three weeks to move in |