Example sentences of "[verb] get there " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a tragedy it is that so many of our talented sixth formers , who really would do well in your universities , who are dying to get there , who queue , fight , struggle , work hard to get there , who have tremendous talents , are denied access , not because of lack of ability but perhaps because people do n't realize what a great wealth of talent there is . |
| 2 | ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest . |
| 3 | A little anxious , but still ca n't wait to get there . |
| 4 | Racing for the first time at le mans will be the young British driver David Coulthard … he 's ca n't wait to get there but after Silverstone he knows just how hard its going to be |
| 5 | For example , attenders are usually expected to get there under their own steam ; ordinary ambulance services have been reluctant to ferry day patients , and local ambulance service personnel are not trained to understand why an able-bodied young man lacks sufficient motivation as a result of schizophrenia to make his own way half a mile down the road to the day hospital . |
| 6 | You just want to get there . ’ |
| 7 | You just want to get there ’ |
| 8 | " You 'd better send yourself to Hoggatt 's if you want to get there by eight-thirty . |
| 9 | How We Want To Get There — Changing Roles |
| 10 | You want to get there pretty bad , uh ? " |
| 11 | I want to get there in daylight . ’ |
| 12 | But I want to get there for nine . |
| 13 | ‘ When we were putting together our demos , ’ says singer Mike , ‘ we heard ‘ The Only One I Know ’ by The Charlatans and I was really pissed off because I thought it was exactly what we were trying to do … and they 'd got there first . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I firmly believe United would have won the title but for Wembley , while if we 'd got there we would n't have gone up . |
| 15 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
| 16 | He 'd got there , and he was staying … |
| 17 | and erm , we 'd got there and a young lady came along delivering milk you know with a big milk float and she put the , the twins Brenda and |
| 18 | She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room . |
| 19 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 20 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 21 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 22 | Yeah once I 'd got there , they 'd offered me it er and I went home and thought about it actually thought about having to work for them , you know , not just |
| 23 | It 's a little lad and I I looked through a window , I could see Judith holding this baby but you had to walk round to get to her and I knew before you 'd got there and you were all over the moon about this little baby and everything |
| 24 | She could use the sugar she 'd got for building bricks for a new shed I reckon , the amount she 'd got there . |
| 25 | maybe the folk There 'd be some arrangement made to get there but what it was I ca n't remember . |
| 26 | ‘ One thing I hope to get there — religion . |
| 27 | Always wanting to get there first , |
| 28 | With direction targets it does not matter since we do not expect to get there . |
| 29 | I 'm inclined to ring in half an hour to see you 've got there safely , but I suppose I 'd have your brother hopping out of bed . ’ |
| 30 | Planning each outing is good training for the patient : if he has difficulties with programming , you might go over the plan with him each time before he goes out , and ask him to say out loud exactly where he is going and how he is going to get there . |