How To Use Get down In A Sentence
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If you're keeping it traditional and not using Halloween as a three day extended party, you can get down on the actual holiday with the Latin funk of Pimps of Joytime and Nayas at Rock and Roll Hotel.
Nightlife agenda
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His exceptional talent at putting acrylics and oils together on board and letting them ooze is a lesson on how to do this kind of thing and all those kids in ARI-land should get down to the Wynne and check it out.
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The path, when we get down again into the tree-fern region, is inches deep in mud and water, and several places where we have a drop of five feet or so over lumps of rock are worse work going down than we found them going up, especially when we have to drop down on to amomum stems.
Travels in West Africa
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Do a little dance, make a little love and get down tonight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stop larking about and get down to the problem.
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Problem is that he has to get down with Karl Lagefeld though at least hes lost the lard-remember when he was a fat knacker??
Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
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Get down on your knees!
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Let's cut the crap and get down to business.
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Please, get down off your horse, "sg", and realize that commenting on an observation does not amount to some kind of anti - [insert your personal view here] agenda.
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Angola's ruling party was due to get down to brass tacks today with a debate on the party's record.
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You try and get down to the individual soldier, airmen, sailor, Marine level, coastguardsmen duty, civilian and look them in the eye and say, ‘How's it going?’
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He climbed to the top of the tree and then became afraid to get down.
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let's get down to basics
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At least one of our readers would prefer that The Sports Reporter and I dispense with the pre-review chit-chat and get down to the nitty-gritty when we write about our tandem dining-out experiences.
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Understandably, the children were getting impatient for the beach - but how on earth were we going to get down there?
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Well get down to the Dooney some night this week, because the place is literally jumping with the best music and craic around.
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Writer Chica said ... stomach bugs are the worst! ick. hope you are well soon. did you do anything special to get down to your prepreg weight?
Out sick
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Harold said he couldn't get down comfortably to play shots because he cricked his neck a few days ago.
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After I had readied myself to get down to the bus stand, Vaseem messaged me that the one class that was scheduled for today had also been cancelled.
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We will then walk past the envious eyes of the city to my crib, where we will get down all night long.
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'' To get down there and have that opportunity and not come away with any points, that was tough and it kind of deflated us after that. ''
USATODAY.com
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If you don't get down to the market before 4.30 pm, you'll have missed your last chance to enjoy their spectacular spuds, caulis, carrots and broccoli, all grown on the family firm's own acres in Wigginton.
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Having met the great and good, can he now get down and dirty at their expense?
Times, Sunday Times
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Come on boys , let's cut out the monkey business and get down to work.
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Well, it is time to get down and dirty to trick your brain into thinking you indulged.
The Sun
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We eagerly took the opportunity to get down and do stamping exercises and "cabby" arms to try and get warm.
Fanny Goes to War
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Now, I shove and elbow and do karate moves and eye gouges just to get down the hallway.
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It really doesn't get down to Scandinavian lows here, but the humidity caused by our maritime climate makes a zero degrees day feel utterly bitter.
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Okay, I am going to caffeinate myself now and get down to this.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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We sang with kids, kids sang to us, we prayed, we watched Rejoice get down in some jump rope, and we got to eat two meals, including samp and beans.
Archive 2009-08-01
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What we did is we sent two rescue teams and about 20 of our employees in the mine and they broke out what we call a seal here and they went in on apparatus and they were trying to get down through here so it would only be 55 feet to drive from this entry over to where the men were.
CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2007
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Now that the yule festivities are over, we can get down to toasting in the New Year.
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His videos invariably feature a harem of voluptuous, bikini-clad lovelies positively gagging to get down with the self-styled Mr Lover Lover.
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We've had it with isms: now it's time to get down to ologies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well it seems like the boy racers spend a huge fistful of money on cool neon lights, mag wheels and bolt-on performance products - but do they get down and dirty?
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Be prepared also to get down and dirty.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can get down to nitpicking detail, I am pretty fussy about certain things.
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I think most of it is completely lame and uninteresting until we get down to Hard Acid Techno and VGM (Video Game Music).
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Now, you get down from the chair and lie on your back on the bench.
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Okay, that's the broad plan-let's get down to the specifics.
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It was hard to get down, but all the men took theirs at a gulp, and when Kivi gave me another shellful, I followed their pattern.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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As you wish, Miss, If you want to get down, that is what you'll get.
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He can pull on running plays and screens and get downfield to throw a block.
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Then he will put the thought to the back of his mind and get down to work.
Times, Sunday Times
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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I have a friend who has a couple of mustangs, and we ride when I get down to visit her.
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A few were tricky to get down tight live, especially "Boogie Down," a rippling discoboogie anthem with dual Minimoog and Rhodes parts that had me reaching across the rig to grab right hand chords while synth-funking for booty dunking with my left hand, all while singing lead vocals and dancing my ass off.
Robbie Gennet: Before you can Taste the Love, you first have to Make the Love
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The subway is the fastest way to get downtown.
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Now I don't get Down Under too often, so this is a good shot at having me hop the Pond to Australia while I'm there, as well as going to other place in EnZed.
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There is a very simple solution if you find this disconcerting: get down there and do it for her.
Times, Sunday Times
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I get down with fusilli with the zest of lemon peel!
The Goofiest of Garage Bands
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Currently, I'm participating in a multiauthor health and fitness blog with my 2009 goals being a bit more modest except for more hiking and weight loss-I'd like to get down to a weight of 165 pounds, vs. the 185-190 I've been at for some time (which is considerably less than the 265 I was at when my weight was highest).
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What we did is we sent two rescue teams and about 20 of our employees in the mine and they broke out what we call a seal (ph) here and they went in on apparatus and they were trying to get down through here so it would only be 55 feet to drive from this entry over to where the men were.
CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2007
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She get up, she get down, she roll, she kick the stomach, like crazy woman.
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Creationism: Once you get down to the details, the stupidest idea ever, with the possible exception of breatharianism.
Lungfish petition - The Panda's Thumb
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Both are happy to get down and dirty.
Times, Sunday Times
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She orders a plate of seafood, but redeems herself by smothering everything with olive oil, and we get down to business.
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Get down here for the sandcastle-building competitions, beach volleyball, mini-polo and aqua zumba.
Times, Sunday Times
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Steph and Peter get down to the tricky business of soldering the widgets and gadgets that make up the complex technology inside the new digital studios.
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I suspect if the economy gets any worse "claimer" situations could get downright ugly if not dangerous.
"Claimers"
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How long does it take to get downtown?
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This disrespectful allusion to his calling ruffled the temper of the hospital attendant, and, growing profane, he insisted that he was as good as _Smith_, and better, and at once challenged "the bloviating mule scrubber to get down off his perch and stand up before him like a man.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
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Thus, The Birth Rate Decline Bra , festooned with cartoon grandmothers admonishing lazy Japanese to get down, get funky and get themselves some families.
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Angola's ruling party was due to get down to brass tacks today with a debate on the party's record.
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The best hope is that we will mobilize international support and get down to action.
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He pitched to within 30 feet of the hole, from where he took three putts to get down.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no.
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The undercurrent is terribly strong, and if you once get down into it you are all right.
Three Men in a Boat
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The best hope is that we will mobilize international support and get down to action.
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He called Johnny Fletcher a loudmouth, a weisenheimer and a few other names and wound up with: "Now, let's get down to business.
The Laughing Fox
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Get down to the opticians and sort yourself out with some eyewear.
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Get down off that table immediately, you silly girl!
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Ah well, I can get down off my hobby horse now!
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I nearly fell in my anxiety to get downstairs quickly.
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But just as you're about get down to work with the wooden club, blow me if you don't discover you're in the wrong house.
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I suspect that the "what turns you on" decision needs to be made earlier, in the yearn/zing part of story development, so that when you get down to details the characters tell *you* what turns them on, instead of you telling *them*.
How to Write Sex Well
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One baby site advises that you get down on the baby's level and scour the floor for anything he could see.
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Note that you can't get down to the hoverport by car - the slip road from the A256 is securely fenced off.
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When you get down the main wash at the final corner you see Death Valley.
Todd Carmichael: First Three Days in Death Valley
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THEN you have to take into account time consumed with poxy paperwork about pledges, public confidence and diversity etc etc … And all that before we get down to arrest procedures.
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When I get down the ramp, I pay the toll, then follow the signs for the airport toward long-term parkin’.
Daddy Long Stroke
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Let's cut the crap and get down to business.
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The prospect is tantalising, but first it's time to get down to brass tacks.
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He climbed to the top of the tree and then became afraid to get down.
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How many times, and from how many directions, is Obama going get down on his knees and say "ahhh"?
MoveOn Hammers Obama For Fox News Appearance
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Rise early and shine your shoes with a get down baby dance like there's no today because tomorrow is the cut-out birthday crown made for the king.
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And of course the story takes place in an unseasonable heatwave, so they get down to Horseshoe Bend and Carl is sweating, emaciated, very unwell, and on top of all of that, this October happens to be a hot one.
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Fetch me the drift holder and I will get down to work.
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As you can see, some of these command-line commands can get downright Byzantine when you're inputting a lot of parameters!
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It will be necessary to pare this budget down considerably.
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So she decided she would climb out of the window onto a low roof and get down to the yard that way.
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Even if the urbane middle-class Delhiite deigns to get down from his E-class or rigged-meter auto-rickshaw, there is no place to walk across vast stretches of the capital city of India.
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Get down to your local fishmonger and try out some shellfish.
The Sun
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Get down to the post office pronto!
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So, let's get down to brass tacks - what colour romper suits do we need to be looking at?
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Let's get down to work now
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Long ultraviolet would get down to the earth if there were no ozone.
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Maybe we need to get down from our fancy cars and walk, explore those untrodden paths.
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For the rest, doctors will tell you to eat less and eat better, get down the gym and work those moobs away.
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Then he will put the thought to the back of his mind and get down to work.
Times, Sunday Times
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At least one of our readers would prefer that The Sports Reporter and I dispense with the pre-review chit-chat and get down to the nitty-gritty when we write about our tandem dining-out experiences.
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Some peasants outside predict a storm, and counsel us to get down into the valley as quickly as may be; so the chesnut is hastily put to, and we rattle off just as the first heavy drops come splashing down to a low accompaniment of very distant thunder.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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She says the word "ornery" more than it should be used, and when she tells her dog to get down off the couch, the word "down" has a strong, country twang to it.
Scott Janssen: Chic-fil-A Ruined My Relationship
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He would get down on all fours and howl like a wolf, or suddenly rear up like a cornered bear, bellowing and swatting at the air.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The medina, the medieval old town, is the one place where people do leave their homes, because tanks cannot get down the narrow twisting alleys.
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Her back was aching from having to get down in order to put things in and out of the bottom drawer.
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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So strap on yer dancing shoes ‘cause we gonna get down like James Brown (without all that nasty wife-beating stuff)!
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You want to duck your head and get down out of it, and Lord it tires you so -- aviation isn't all "brilliant risks" and "daring dives" and that kind of blankety-blank circus business, not by a long shot it ain't, lots of it is just sticking there and bucking the wind like a taxi driver speeding for a train in a storm.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
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Military contingents get down to performing their service duties after main forces complete their deployment in a conflict area.
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The best hope is that we will mobilize international support and get down to action.
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Let's skip the formalities and get down to business.
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The gunman entered the bank wearing a white boilersuit and dust mask, shouting "Everyone get down on the floor", Beedell said.
Police surround bank after armed man sparks hostage fears
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Get down to Uniqlo and buy one of these splendid print or check flannel shirts, and wear with boyfriend jeans and heels or brogues.
Times, Sunday Times
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His exceptional quickness and agility allow him to get downfield and make blocks at the second level of the defense.
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When you get down to the fundamentals, maybe I shouldn't be building the biggest badass processors I can make.
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My advice is to get a few bottles of plonk at the off-licence and get down to Ethas Kitchen, only a five minute drive away - a place that oozes ambience and offers quality dishes in a very unpretentious surrounding.
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Stop larking about and get down to the problem.
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From the rim we were able to access the rim of the fumarolic crater and get down to the floor.
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With the election out of the way, the government can get down to business.
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He sounds like one of those fellas you get down at my local boozer.
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He must've had to get down to 2% body fat in order to look that cut, but his wisecracking was a little lame and not as funny as it wanted to be.
Archive 2004-12-01
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We had some good drives, but then we'd get down to the red zone and kind of sputter out, '' Carr said.
USATODAY.com - Football - Pittsburgh vs. Carolina
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Let's get down to business right away-we'll stop for coffee later.
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He says I need to get down on my stinking commo knees and apologise to the Yanks.
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With the election out of the way, the government can get down to business.
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I can get down with stories written by icky letches, mind you, but they have to deliver the goods.
2008 December « paper fruit
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I get down on my hands and knees and peer into the darkness but can only hear him grunting.
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He's a good athlete who has the ability to get downfield and make blocks.
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As soon as officials get down there, they're going to be able to assess the damage there.
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OK, let's get down to business.
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He was unable to get down from his precarious position on the rocks.
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If there is a possible area for a safe landing, use the brakes and get down into it.
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You see, you must get down beneath the gentleman or would-be gentleman-farmer, down to the man who never conceived the idea of ruffling it with gentlefolk.
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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With the election out of the way, the government can get down to business.
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Ether is, when you really get down to it, a gas that is soft and airy and can knock you unconscious.
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Never mind the side issues, let's get down to brass tacks and thrash out a basic agreement.
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Brunel, who was known as a workaholic, oversaw the construction of the tunnel and was even known to get down and supervise digging amongst the navvies.
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Hayley Williams as good as her Paramore friends ditch a DayGlo as good as usually get down to a commercial operation of creation a torpedo stone record, as good as Eyes rips along upon hair-trigger guitars, tranquil lambaste as good as Williams 'decidedly torpedo pipes (check songs similar to "Careful" as good as "Ignorance" for proof).
Archive 2009-12-01
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She yelled at the child to get down from the wall.
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If you're going into the water anyway, you could also see if you could get down to the mascon.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
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Her back was aching from having to get down in order to put things in and out of the bottom drawer.
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Something tells me they'd bulldoze a damn big firebreak at one of the passes before letting the thing get down here.
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So the ambience and atmosphere was scoring top marks so far - but let's get down to the food.
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I really must get down to some study.
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To get down that tongue of rock to the lower snows of the couloir was a job that fairly brought us to the end of our tether.
Mr. Standfast
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So I'm sitting in traffic here on Martha's Vineyard, trying to get downtown to buy those turquoise-colored poison pellets to kill the mice that drop their tiny doo-doos all over my kitchen counters, and it hits me, bonk!, like the apple on Mr. Isaac Newton: The Obamas can have my house!
Jenny Allen: Take My House, Please
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Having moved out of electioneering mode, the Government could get down to the serious business of putting its rhetoric about fiscal responsibility into practice.
Times, Sunday Times
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It particularly affected me when I saw the destruction made to get down the basso-relievos on the walls of the frieze.
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It is, indeed, extremely difficult, owing to the superstruction of sectarian belief, to get down to the foundation-religion of the epic.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
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After adjusting and steadying my aim, I fired another round that tore a two inch hole in the head of the target downrange.
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They also led to the most appalling displays of brown-nosing among their more sycophantic colleagues, some of whom could not get down on their knees fast enough when the great man appeared.
A Covert Affair
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'Twas good to get down to the Casa and talk inanities with various people, and a few deeper convos with others.
Party Time, Excellent
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Children were running berserk using the place as an adventure playground while their parents screeched, ‘Wayne and Tracy, get down off that wardrobe, you little bleeders, or I'll belt you!’
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He climbed to the top of the tree and then became afraid to get down.
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Unfortunately the treaty is full of generalities, and fails to get down to specifics.
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The roots of many carnivals around the world are in pre-Lenten debauch - a time to get down and dirty before those 40 days of strained piety.
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That's enough fun and games! Let's get down to work.
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Floating lines are probably going to be enough but if you're really trying to get down deep during hot weather then you'll need different rate sinkers.
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The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems.
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Fianna Fail's formula is that once the Unionists get down to serious discussions they will be addressed.
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Over at The Hill, Jordan Fabian reports that the GOP is preparing to get down to the business of "defunding" NPR:
GOP Looks To Defund NPR Over Williams Firing
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He could go outside, get down the stair by somehow working hand over hand on the bannisters, and hang out the doorway.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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The other day they got their heads together, and wanted me to do something, and I refused flatly, and they begged, and entreated, and argufied, till I made them all get down on their knees and ask me.
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Stop arguing about procedure and let's get down to business.
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We need to do some brainstorming before we get down to detailed planning.
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At that point, the milling about became such that it was important to get downstairs behind cipher locks and secure doors.
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Well, it is time to get down and dirty to trick your brain into thinking you indulged.
The Sun
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“The rest of them are usually so blathered by the time they get down to it, they never even notice.”
The Priest
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The General was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems.
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Air planes are stacked up the 'wazoo' up there trying to get down here," one colonel said just before his troops exited the C-17.
Mudville Gazette
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So even if they had in other parts of the country like Cap-Haitien, which is a city north of Port-Au-Prince, very difficult to get down into Port-Au-Prince.
CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010
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I remember the air raid drills held in school, the ones where a siren would wail and the teachers would tell us to get down on the floor, under our desks.
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Stop larking about and get down to the problem.
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Good, you can get down to the cookhouse and cook it.
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Did he get down on one knee to propose?
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This is why they get down on their knees and face Mecca and prostrate themselves to God of Mount Sinai aka God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Yehovah, and Allah so many times every day.
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Air marshals pursued and ordered the passenger to get down on the ground.
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I didn't manage to get down that last bit she said, about the meeting.
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The best hope is that we will mobilize international support and get down to action.
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People are always texting to tell me to get down to London but my family are in north Wales.
Times, Sunday Times
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We need to do some brainstorming before we get down to detailed planning.
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If politicians really want to stop terror then let's leave out the macho tough talk and get down to business.
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Then we can get the skepticism over with and get down to some work.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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It was very difficult to get down the steep, slippery bank, into a precarious canoe which I could not see, and so thick was the darkness that I sat down in the water between the two gridirons, and had to remain there during the crossing, which took a long time, being against the stream.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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But unless Lynch is knocking down his shot - something he rarely does - it will allow Rose to gamble on defense and get downcourt quickly.
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Hollyhock landed in a low branch of a pine tree, and dangled there as she tried to find a way to get down.
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If you do wuss out, don't get down on yourself or rationalize it away ("Oh, those girls weren't hot enough to talk to...yeah...that's it").
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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I'm looking to get down to 13 stone by mid February, that means more miles and less beer and choccy.
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Then if it's all right with you," he said as he set his drink aside, "we'll skip the rest of dinner along with any further informalities and get down to business.
Flinx's Folly
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But once the circuit elements get down to sizes close to the wavelength of light, diffraction begins to blur the circuit patterns as they are projected.
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The project sort of got stuck in a basket at the bottom of my basket stack, but I have brought it back out - I'm try to get down to only having half a dozen or so projects on the go at one time (not counting finished tops waiting to be quilted, that is).
Cats & Huts
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I got to the top and found that what Jackson was scared of was this long twisty slide you had to take to get down to the ground again.
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Get down here for the sandcastle-building competitions, beach volleyball, mini-polo and aqua zumba.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first step is to cut through the gloss you will find in ‘every thing is beautiful’ brochures and get down to the bare skeleton structure of what is being offered.
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It will be necessary to pare this budget down considerably.
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I managed to squeeze through and get down the stairs.
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It's times when I feel myself really start to get down that I know I need to read a book and get my mind off the internal conflict.
