Example sentences of "got to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked out of the village , got to the main road , turned right instead of left and here I am . |
| 2 | He did n't actually have to run his finger along the line in order to make sense of it , but he did like to mouth the words as he got to them . |
| 3 | ‘ Angus Cameron ! ’ he said and got to his feet . |
| 4 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 5 | Mr Rooker said money from the fund ‘ simply never got to the people who needed it because it was n't publicised enough and because the regimental administrators were inefficient . |
| 6 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 7 | I was told that I would be given the money when I got to Singapore . |
| 8 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 9 | Everyone knows Mr Baker has edited the Faber Book of English History in Verse , and included some lines from Henry V , but even there he never got to that particular bit . |
| 10 | He got to No 10 because he had 18 months earlier forced Neville Chamberlain to readmit him to the Cabinet . |
| 11 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 12 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 13 | As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock 's trench . |
| 14 | I got to my feet and stood by Taff at the gun , both of us staring out into the night . |
| 15 | From time to time one of the team got to his feet , went over to a neat pile of mortar bombs , picked one up and slid it gently down the muzzle of the mortar . |
| 16 | The barn shook again as I got to my feet and made my way to the door with the feeling that the barn had been very lucky so far in not receiving a direct hit from one of the frequent mortar bombs that were exploding in and around the farm . |
| 17 | I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics . |
| 18 | We both laughed as we got to our feet and cleaned out our mess-tins . |
| 19 | After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn . |
| 20 | By the time he got to me his accent was thick Cockney , all ‘ cor blimey ’ . |
| 21 | Of course , when we got to Brighton there was nothing going on there either . |
| 22 | When we got to the room she went to pull the curtains . |
| 23 | When I got to London Chrissie was no longer working in the shop . |
| 24 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 25 | It got to the stage where we did n't bother to ask what happened to it . |
| 26 | As we got to Tottenham Court Road — which is just round the corner — she spotted the Ann Summers sex shop there and said , hang on , let's just pop in there for a minute . |
| 27 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 28 | As soon as I got to the other side of the bank I threw myself down and started to roll . ’ |
| 29 | When we got to Donoghue 's Cross the road was cut and trees knocked . |
| 30 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |