Example sentences of "to get to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 2 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 3 | To get to the pay review body involved an interesting and long gestation period by Ministers . |
| 4 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 5 | Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was . |
| 6 | Most people only use that road to get to the villa itself and the two farms beyond it . |
| 7 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 8 | It was clear that she was eager to get to the high-point of her story . |
| 9 | I suppose well my children would say my answer to everything is to say to them breathe , you know , and erm you know just do very simple relaxation if nothing else , and then that allows you maybe to start looking at other things , but to get to the state where you can begin to look at things without the fears and emotions getting in the way . |
| 10 | The females move down from the cliffs , across the shingle to the breakers , scrambling over one another in their anxiety to get to the water . |
| 11 | All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village . |
| 12 | If Erika Payers had failed to get to the church ( registry office , actually ) on time , it would have been entirely in keeping with her costume . |
| 13 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're just off , nipping out the back way to get to the church before them . |
| 15 | Fire crews attending the incident were unable to get to the scene before the cloud developed , due to the five mile contraflow . |
| 16 | It 's very windy , of course , so he decides it 's a 2-iron to get to the green and he slams it superbly but it misses right , just off the green . |
| 17 | I — er — managed to get to the road and — and Alain rescued me . ’ |
| 18 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 19 | All these questions were answered throughout the course of my work experience but the most relevant at that point was how to get to the recording studio . |
| 20 | On a Sunday at family worship , it may be that there has been a rush to get to the service . |
| 21 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 22 | ‘ I need Joe to get to the by-line and supply the ammunition for our strikers and he knows that . |
| 23 | Mr Deacon saved himself by running through the inferno to get to the staircase and outside . |
| 24 | No time to get to the shelter , there was a noise of metal all around us . |
| 25 | He had sworn at her , jeered at her , called her a lump of cold batter , told her to get to the devil , told her that he was sick of the sight of her , that he had married her for her money , that if she gave him any more of her canting preaching he 'd hit her one that she 'd remember . |
| 26 | Since discovery of the deception , which involved the creation of non existent profits and stocks in the books through use of ‘ phantom ’ contracts , Mr Zilligen has given investigators every assistance in helping to get to the bottom of the debacle . |
| 27 | She might exasperate him , but she was fully as intelligent as he was and it would be as well to get to the bottom of this . |
| 28 | A three year old is comparatively weak and easy to get to the bottom of , whereas a four or five year old will be able to put up more of a resistance ( if that is in his nature ) . |
| 29 | It is a very useful behaviour when trying to get to the bottom of things and when you need to tease information out of the other person . |
| 30 | There are plenty of reluctant candidates for ownership , according to Winchester district council , which is trying to get to the bottom of the matter . |