Example sentences of "to get [pers pn] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of these breaks is to give learners a chance to catch up with the plot ; to get them to a point where they understand enough of what has happened to make a reasonable stab at following the gist of the next part . |
| 2 | Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance . |
| 3 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 4 | Then , turning towards his injured companion , ‘ We 've got to get him to a hospital , he 's hurt bad . ’ |
| 5 | So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling . |
| 6 | Collins still hopes to push his proposal through committee sessions in time to get it to a plenary session of the full parliament in May . |
| 7 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
| 8 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |