Example sentences of "get [adv prt] to the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 2 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 3 | ‘ Clearly , once it gets on to the motorway it can get anywhere . |
| 4 | But before we get down to the equations I must say a few words in defence of the approach I choose . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 6 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 7 | And er that puts some obligation on Notts next week and then er in December to do well when they 're in Italy erm also an obligation to do well now , but bu get back to the point I 'm trying make . |
| 8 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 9 | And by the time I get back to the house I expect you to be gone . ’ |
| 10 | Get back to the book I was reading . ’ |
| 11 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 12 | well I , getting back to the picture you see , I , when I looked at it I thought good god it 's our Bill , I , I you could of thought it were twin brothers when I |
| 13 | Prior to getting around to the job I have to do , and that is to honour those men that gave their lives so that we could be free , I 'd like to just share a few things with you as we return to this wonderful country . |
| 14 | As soon as he got back to the hut he passed his grandparents a bowl of water each . |
| 15 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 16 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 17 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 18 | When she got back to the bench she saw that she had knocked over one of the shopping bags when she had stood up and a carton of eggs had dropped to the ground . |
| 19 | They walked the rest of the distance in silence , and by the time they got back to the car it was baking hot . |
| 20 | When Melissa got back to the college it was after half-past five and the car park was almost empty . |
| 21 | When she got back to the lodgings she sat down in her room and opened the letter . |
| 22 | for what we were doing so when I got back to the office I rung and I tempor well provisionally booked this , the smallest of the two which I think will be brill . |
| 23 | By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty . |
| 24 | By the time they got back to the house it was past eight . |
| 25 | When Daffy got out to the middle he realised he 'd nicked his hand , and that he needed treatment . ’ |
| 26 | When Daffy got out to the middle he realised he 'd nicked his hand , and that he needed treatment . ’ |
| 27 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 28 | erm because , to get in to the flat they 'd either to go up stairs from the deck , or downstairs from the deck , and to try and manage that with small children , probably a buggy and shopping as well . |
| 29 | How many times during a day do we actually get through to the person we need to speak to ? |
| 30 | Even if the phone was answered , the client might not get through to the person he wanted . |