Example sentences of "get down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 3 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | so anyway , she hires so he hires this prostitute and they , they go upstairs and he gets a bit hungry so sarnie and they get down to the serious business |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry to keep you waiting , ’ he went on , ‘ but those of you who have been here before will know that I like to say a few words to break the ice before we get down to the real business of the weekend . |
| 13 | Because I think it 's important , that quite often in influence situations , we get down to the real nitty gritty . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Getting down to the bare bones : There was nothing but a skeleton staff to assist him when Brian Chappill , marketing manager , Midlands West & Wales , handed over a Wimpey Construction UK cheque for £l , 000 to Linda Edwards of Bath-based charity the National Osteoporosis Society . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're getting down to the real stuff — mosaics , some wall plaster , animal bones and there are signs of a hypocaust . ’ |
| 17 | The objective is to and something to share before getting down to the real business . |
| 18 | Meantime , we 'll be getting down to the fine details . ’ |
| 19 | Before getting down to the fine detail of the schedule and of room sizes , the working party first considered a number of basic principles including the desirable size of wards and nursing charges and the basic philosophies of care and treatment which it was felt were most applicable to this group of patients . |
| 20 | But I mean , one of the major problems is a fact , these youth training programmes or Y , YP 's as they call them , are alright but they 're not really getting down to the basic er training we need ! |
| 21 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 22 | Even if I could get down to the required , modest depth , what could I possibly about the swamp ? |
| 23 | Maybe now they 've proved they 've got ‘ the skills to pay the bills ’ they can get down to the serious shit they 're obviously capable of . |
| 24 | He can get down to the nitty gritty and fight inside or he can stand back and box . |
| 25 | Why could n't they get down to the important stuff right away ? |
| 26 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 27 | What appears to be a mortar explosion close by causes the column to get down on the flooded ground . |
| 28 | to get down on the other platform and to wave , |
| 29 | We 've got to get down to the nitty gritty and fight . ’ |
| 30 | Now , you 've got to get down to the real nitty gritty : how will the stage look , what about the sound system , who presses what buttons for the audio-visuals and when … ? |