Example sentences of "get [noun pl] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisers of the annual EAA Convention , held at Wittman Regional Airport , Oshkosh , Wisconsin , have got things down to a fine art , the event runs like clockwork , in fact it would probably do some airshow organisers in Europe a power of good to pay a visit to Oshkosh and see for themselves how fly-ins , airshows and ground exhibitions can , and should , be run . |
| 2 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 3 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 4 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 5 | Sparta voted for war against Athens on this occasion in her own chamber , thereby getting Samos on to the Peloponnesian League agenda ; the Corinthians voted for peace in the second , decisive meeting , composed of the whole league ( Thuc. i.40 ) . |
| 6 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
| 7 | It would get things off to a good start . |
| 8 | I thought it would get things off to a good start . ’ |