Example sentences of "[adv] get to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies .
2 WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6
3 When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover .
4 After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m .
5 The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington .
6 ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) .
7 After half-an-hour of this sort of thing , it suddenly began to dawn on everybody that Mr Clarke had only got to clause one of the actual legislation .
8 And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it .
9 You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road .
10 So we 've literally got to dove-tail this into whatever other current arrangements they have , including any other P H I they 've already got .
11 You can only get to Rudolfo 's by the road we took the other day when they found the car- or else on foot there 's a bit of a patch half a kilometre on from here — and in any case Rudolfo wo n't be down until tomorrow , being Palm Sunday .
12 It did n't take long to get to Lori 's suite , but this time her knock took longer to be answered .
13 ‘ She arrived about seven thirty and they had had time enough to get to grips with their subject matter already , by all accounts . ’
14 So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat
15 Come on , you 'd better get to bed if you 're going to take us to England tomorrow .
16 Oh man , I 'd better get to California soon , while the transplant people still have something to work on .
17 But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all .
18 finally got to Monica and we thought that was enough , so we just wrote Monica , we thought they 'd accept that and they did n't .
19 ‘ Sunderland 's just got to Wembley .
20 I was two days late in getting onshore and just got to London on time .
21 Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes
22 I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas
23 Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ?
24 She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs .
25 It is 0320 before the team finally get to bed , with the Captain promising them a lie-in until 1000 hours .
26 On Sunday night the driver would take me back to Verona and Eric would somehow get to Rome , where he was going to be working .
27 It took her much longer to get to Leominster Gardens , where Bob lived , than she had expected .
28 ‘ Interested ? ’ she queried huskily , and , trying desperately to get to grips with herself — he could n't mean ‘ interested ’ interested , could be ? — ‘ You mean , interested in me as a journalist ? ’ she just had to find out more .
29 And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext .
30 Oh So Risky , who ran away with the Triumph Hurdle — the crown for four-year-olds — at the 1991 Festival , came to the final flight in last year 's Champion Hurdle with the race apparently won , and Sheikh Mohammed 's Royal Gait had to bash two others aside to finally get to David Elsworth 's five-year-old in a photo finish .
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