Example sentences of "get down to the " 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 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 6 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 7 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 8 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 9 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 10 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 14 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 15 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 16 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've got down to the stone foundation , ’ Nigel said . |
| 18 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 19 | Mr Farmer said : ‘ You have got down to the core of the problem . |
| 20 | I 'm only looking , I have n't even got down to the thing yet . |
| 21 | I think Shel 's got down to the beginning again ! |
| 22 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 23 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 24 | But with such a wide-awake bird as the wheatear you will discover very little else about its private life unless you really get down to the job . |
| 25 | But with such a wide-awake bird as the wheatear you will discover very little else about its private life unless you really get down to the job . |
| 26 | Now get down to the business of making a country fit for business to operate in , with plenty of unemployment and real inequality . ’ |
| 27 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 28 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 29 | Be aware of how you get down to the floor . |
| 30 | Cancel the wedding or the holiday , sell the theatre/football/movie tickets , put the dog in kennels and get down to the Wembley Exhibition Centre … sharpish ! |