Example sentences of "[adv] getting to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What makes it even more sweet is the fact that they crapped on about us only getting to the 2nd round last year and how they were going to get to the final . |
| 2 | We 're just getting to the end of that now , we 'll be another mark on the er five year list you know between eighty seven and ninety two . |
| 3 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | Erm , like getting to the right thing |
| 6 | Sir I I 'm just not sure how you how you want to play this because you may feel I beginning to feel we 're probably getting to the end of this circuit here . |
| 7 | The ESO has the advantage of offering greater scope for really getting to the root of truancy problems by keeping the education welfare service in close contact with the families with which it has been working . |
| 8 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 9 | But with the interest bill now well over £600m a year , it is surely now getting to the stage where there is some doubt whether revenue will be sufficient to cover running costs and pay back some of the monumental debt . |
| 10 | And they are now getting to the point where they are are popular as the folders in terms of |
| 11 | Many runners spend far too much time fretting about what pace they hope to run , or whether to wear gloves , while ignoring more basic details which could eventually affect their even getting to the start . |
| 12 | I was managing to put our disastrous marriage behind me , and I was even getting to the stage where I could look forward to the future . |
| 13 | St Louis would be a nearly two-hour flight , and then getting to the university and making polite conversation … |
| 14 | Back in the 1940s , though , it was taken a lot more seriously , so that actually getting to the point where you popped the question was a big commitment . ’ |