Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course she does n't know what my life was like for six years or so , although I may get round to telling her , in time . |
| 2 | I must get round to getting end of uhum curtain material . |
| 3 | Do not say ‘ Oh I must get around to phoning Fred or Millie ’ and just keep putting it off . |
| 4 | If you will excuse me I must get back to lurking . |
| 5 | ’ Well , perhaps I should go back to living on my own then ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When the brewery is open I might get round to organising another trip , ’ he said . |
| 7 | And when I get a moment I 'll get down to noting any facts I think could help you . |
| 8 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 9 | And once Hatchard , the CID man who 'd come round to Dwyer Street on the night in question , had done his bit and told the Coroner twice that he did n't suspect foul play , then most people seemed satisfied and I could get back to enjoying my hangover . |
| 10 | Sometimes I think I will go back to using my father 's razor . ’ |
| 11 | Instead , I will simply buy more film and , encouraged as any amateur should be by this well-presented book , I will get back to grovelling on my knees in the Oxfordshire hedgerows . |
| 12 | And I can get round to doing that this week , I started trying on Friday but most of them were of course hitting the road . |
| 13 | Madeleine kept repeating that she 'd get down to hacking back the brambles one of these days but on the other hand she did n't have the time . |
| 14 | I thought when the war was over , you 'd go back to prizefighting . |
| 15 | If you could go back to calling me Du you would be more honest about our relationship and oblige Your obedient servant , Sophie Arandt . |
| 16 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 17 | The kindest thing one can say of this is that , one day , we may come round to liking it . |
| 18 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 19 | I asked Terry to come along because one of the things I tho I tho I hope we might get round to spending a few minutes on was about Alan 's raised it before about records coming in er , and what the state of the game is in records coming into us and how we 're transferring that information , or not transferring that information onto dep onto department 's national curriculum er material |
| 20 | After tea at 4.00 p.m. — usually apple pie — there was the milking to do again and then we would settle down to patching , mending and darning , and making rug mats . |
| 21 | We will come back to dealing with . |
| 22 | Council workers have staged a protest after being told they must go back to using a car park where one of their colleagues was murdered . |
| 23 | ‘ I guess they 'll get round to dragging it off to the junk yard , ’ said Billie , her arm linked through his as they made their way back towards the car . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I suppose when they 'd finished saying bugger and blast and damn and kicking butter-fingers in the head they might get round to saying that , ’ said Lydia . |
| 25 | Then they can go back to asking each other where they got their blow-drys and leave the rest of us in peace . ’ |
| 26 | I will comment , as I repeatedly do , on the determination of everyone in Ulster to end violence and to ensure that they can get back to living normal lives . |
| 27 | In such cases it may come down to allocating liability beween the parents and the occupier . |
| 28 | As for Oz , perhaps he should go back to doing the voice for Fozzy Bear . |
| 29 | Ultimately it must come down to taking a view of what effect it has had on the standard of living of her people . |
| 30 | I watch him at PAs and he 'll go up to screaming girls and undo his tunic and twist his nipple right in a girl 's face . |