Example sentences of "get [adv] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The travellers threw missiles , and abandoned some of their vehicles on the road when they could n't get in to the three-day event . |
| 2 | I do n't believe in wasting time , so if Fran is free for lunch I shall take her out and we can get down to the first lesson . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe now they 've proved they 've got ‘ the skills to pay the bills ’ they can get down to the serious shit they 're obviously capable of . |
| 4 | Why could n't they get down to the important stuff right away ? |
| 5 | we never dreamed that we would get through to the next round , to be held in London . |
| 6 | Is my hon. Friend worried — as I am — that the Bill will perhaps not get through to the next stage given the fact that this morning the Northern Region Councils Association — a Labour-dominated body — wrote to every Member of Parliament in the northern region asking them to be present for this important debate ? |
| 7 | In some areas , most notably the liturgical and the ecumenical , Rome did get off to a good start in providing directives of a sort that would carry confidence at least temporarily ; even here , however , there was the inherent problem that a body of directives implied the establishment of a stable state ( e.g. in ecumenical relations ) , while the reality was in fact necessarily more fluid . |
| 8 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 9 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 10 | I still found the argument extraordinary , but I also had to take into account the fact that if Nigel retained this stance then the committee meeting would have to be postponed and the whole exercise would get off to a terrible start . |
| 11 | Such MPs would , it is true , know that territory better than any incoming outsider , and being known there would presumably get off to a flying start in the pursuit of popularity . |
| 12 | THE launch of Middlesbrough yesterday as the country 's second environment city did n't exactly get off to a flying start . |
| 13 | ‘ We must get back to a rigid pattern , with players in the right holes . |
| 14 | Here you can safely get back to the lower path to meander round coves of sparkling sandy beaches . |
| 15 | Now let's get back to the real world . ’ |
| 16 | She knew it was the thing she must n't do , must n't let herself be persuaded into , that it was death , the end , that there was no going back , you could never get back to the same position . |
| 17 | Well , can we get back to the basic thing about classlessness . |
| 18 | Let us get back to the main argument . |
| 19 | But let us get back to the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | Let us get back to the chilly bedroom ! |
| 21 | Because it does mean then that that traffic er on the western side of Harrogate can get out to the western relief road as there 's no need then to go on the urban roads in Harrogate . |