Example sentences of "getting [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting on to a YTS course had changed many young people 's lives . |
| 2 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 3 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 4 | However , how does that come about , I mean if supposing you were a , a member of a very large group like the Catholic Church getting on to a billion people say , well you ca n't possibly identify with a billion other people you ca n't meet them in one lifetime let alone ties with them , so how does , how does narcissistic libido unify the members of vast groups like the Catholic Church ? |
| 5 | Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment . |
| 6 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 7 | Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing . |
| 8 | I shall do my very best for him and , if anything you say is true , getting away to a different atmosphere with other boys will be the answer . |
| 9 | We 're getting close to a place that 's very important to you . ’ |
| 10 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 11 | Getting off to a great start with this major sale in the area gives ESP a strategic advantage as the most innovative products and service company in the submersible pump industry . |
| 12 | The large proportion of the impressions made to what they see , how they visualize you , so if you look a mess you 're backing on the wrong foot , you give , you 're getting off to a bad start straight away and be aware of hidden signals that you 'll give your emanating . |
| 13 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 14 | Winds will remain light and variable , and this will allow all that sunshine to warm the air nicely , temperatures getting up to a comfortable ten or eleven celsius , that 's fifty or fifty fahrenheit . |
| 15 | It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’ |
| 16 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |