Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 2 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 3 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 5 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 6 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 7 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 8 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 9 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 10 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 11 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 12 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 13 | Alice smiled and nodded , and got up to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 14 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 15 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 16 | And er when you get up to speak at the conference , you have to give your name and the reason why you 're there . |
| 17 | He was at the conference , and a lot of the book , if you read the book , is concerned with what actually happened at the conference , and basically , the basic problem with the , the book tries to look at , and this is where we , we get back to question of the childhood days . |
| 18 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 19 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 20 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 21 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 22 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |