Example sentences of "got to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deery got to the bye-line with a fine run to set up Ian Adams for Coleraine 's second , but again the home side regained their two goal cushion when Gilmore chipped into the net . |
| 2 | Given that we rarely ever got to the bye-line , Sunderland never looked really troubled by this . |
| 3 | Lee got to the log first . |
| 4 | ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry . |
| 5 | And when I got to the clinic everyone was in a mess because half the domestic staff had disappeared , walked out without a word . |
| 6 | So I danced till we got to the edge of the room and then I danced right out the door and up the street . |
| 7 | ‘ When you got to the edge of the universe , you were supposed to have turned round and retraced your route which would have brought you back here in the opposite direction to the arrow . ’ |
| 8 | When they got to the edge of the grass , Aziz turned and leered at Maisie and Robert . |
| 9 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 10 | There was quite a procession by the time we got to the church , St Paul 's , and as we entered the organ played ‘ Here Comes the Bride ’ . |
| 11 | When Clare got to the church , Father Kipling was standing in the forecourt , looking about rather anxiously . |
| 12 | The swathing sweep of the Butt of Lewis lighthouse faded the nearer I got to the Port . |
| 13 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 14 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 15 | If she stopped to explain , Keith would be gone before she got to the telephone-box . |
| 16 | But by the time they got to the beach , the ship was already out to sea . |
| 17 | As I got to the beach and began setting up my machine , several people came up to me and asked questions about my detector . |
| 18 | When we got to the green , Ray Floyd says to Nick , ‘ I thought you were never going to play that shot . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When we got to the green , there was no ball to be seen . |
| 20 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 21 | I got to the phone before whoever was calling rang off . |
| 22 | We got to the tree before the bulldozers but the electric saw was perilously close . |
| 23 | We need to know whether Paul got to the Cathedral under his own steam and at what time . |
| 24 | The fuel situation in western Romania was desperate because a lot was being smuggled into Yugoslavia before it even got to the petrol stations . |
| 25 | We got to the bathroom . |
| 26 | By the time I got to the bathroom at half time and over to get something to eat there was nothing hot left . |
| 27 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
| 28 | Eventually , having decided that calling out the Cave Rescue for a simple case of overeating would n't look good in the newspapers , I recovered and got to the lane by Clay Pits Plantation that leads to Victoria Cave . |
| 29 | I wanted a surface sugariness to draw you in before you got to the substance of the song . |
| 30 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |