Example sentences of "you get down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | Be aware of how you get down to the floor . |
3 | Now' — she leant towards him , her finger wagging — ‘ first thing in the mornin' you get down to the station and have a word with Constable Fenwick ; he 'll know what 's goin' to happen to that lass . |
4 | Knights come first , then come DBEs , then come CBEs and so on and so forth , until you get down to the lowest award , which I think is the British Empire Medal . |
5 | ‘ When you get down to the end of a tournament , the people that hit the great shots win and she hit some great shots . ’ |
6 | And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card . |
7 | Yeah , well I mean , that 's a , that 's a difficult one , inside information , when you get down below the top ranks there are lots of people in the mid mi medium-ranks who would know about insider dealing , and I 'm sure use it . |
8 | But once you get down below the horizon you get to look round this area here where there 's some rope tangled round , some kind of padding , it does tend to get a little bit lost amongst all the pebbles . |
9 | Now , you get down from the chair and lie on your back on the bench . |