Example sentences of "[verb] to get to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day when I get up , I ca n't wait to get to school , just to see you . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to try to get to college , Benny , ’ she had said , her face blazing with the intensity of it . |
| 3 | Yeah well come on then cos I want to get to mum 's cos I 'll do that washing up when I come back sha n't I ? |
| 4 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 5 | oh sorry well I do n't wan na talk about that because I want to get to business |
| 6 | Their grandma said to me yesterday , have you worked out how you 're going to get to nursery ? |
| 7 | And when are you going to get to Stone Haven ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm never going to get to prison , ’ he thought . |
| 9 | How many metres do I have to walk to get to school ? |
| 10 | Well I 've got to get to King 's Lynn on Saturday |
| 11 | We 've got to get to school . |
| 12 | All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall . |
| 13 | I would say something along the lines of you 've had several , talking about several ways of energy production , but once you start talking about energy transfer and storage one seems to get to electricity fairly quickly and do you want to say anything about that ? |
| 14 | So how long , how did it take to get to town then George ? |
| 15 | When he writes of prayer , he compares it with ‘ a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards , singing as he rises , and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ’ , and so the lark continues through clause after clause , buffeted by storms from which it takes refuge , until finally ‘ it did rise and sing , as if it had learned music and motion from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below ’ . |
| 16 | In order to discover what had outshone me , I bought the book , but by page 25 had entirely lost my way ( Bernard Levin , I read , managed to get to page 29 ) . |
| 17 | It sounded as though , win or lose , Ace expected to get to heaven . |
| 18 | They 've only got Middlesbrough , Peterborough to beat to get to final of Rumbelow . |
| 19 | I preface my statement by saying ‘ look at what we 've beaten to get to second ? ’ . |
| 20 | and trying to get to socialism but it 's , it 's the government who are doing the work . |
| 21 | This created a conundrum for the label , resolved with the following decision : ‘ You can suffer from Number One-itis , ’ reckons Andy , ‘ which is always trying to get to Number One or go one better than you managed last time . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to get to hospital . |
| 23 | And and er Katie was off the day before with something and just managed to get to school that day . |
| 24 | Does n't matter , you have to get to bed early to get a good sleep . |
| 25 | We have to get to school and there 's the rabbits and things to feed first . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm sorry mummy had to rush us so much this morning it 's just when we 're in a rush we have to get to school on time you see , it 's a bit rotten when you 're only three is n't it ? |
| 27 | I went back to my room , trying to forget about my brother ; I wanted to get to bed early so that I could be up in time for the naming ceremony of the new catapult . |
| 28 | Where children are well motivated , well supported at home and well funded , they will be easier to teach , especially if the buildings are good , than pupils who struggle to get to school and whose parents are feckless and short of money . |
| 29 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |