Example sentences of "got [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 2 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 3 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 5 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 6 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 7 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 8 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 9 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 10 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 11 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 12 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 13 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 14 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |