Example sentences of "[verb] to get [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A POLICEMAN who suffered months of agony after being shot by a small-time crook said yesterday : ‘ I ca n't wait to get back to work . ’ |
| 2 | This child wants to get back to school , she wants to be in the Christmas play . ’ |
| 3 | And I would gain considerable advantage from speeding ; I am tired and I want to get home to bed . |
| 4 | ‘ Want to get down to business ? ’ |
| 5 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 6 | And I thought that sewing machine is really going to get out to work . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got to get back to town , ’ Maxim said , ‘ but can I get you another drink ? ’ |
| 8 | He remembered his sporadic visits back to Taler 's Bump , the shy little girl who 'd been virtually a stranger to him , his awkward attempts at being a family man when all the time he 'd only been yearning to get back to work . |
| 9 | Müller said , ‘ I do have to catch my plane , Madame Levison , so if you do n't mind , I 'd like to get down to business . |
| 10 | By the same token we should build more fighter aircraft so that expensively trained officers may be ‘ enabled to get back to work . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Tuckett muttered something about having to get back to work and Bernice said that would be fine , as she could drop me back in her car . |
| 12 | After the mortaring had ceased I decided to get back to Brigade H.Q , probably it would be much quieter there . |
| 13 | When he failed to get in to Merchant Taylors , Iain was sent off to boarding school in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 14 | Then I got to get back to work . |
| 15 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 16 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 17 | IF you 're trying to get back to work or change jobs , the Institute of Personnel Management and W H Smith have produced an Employment Pack with lots of practical help , how to do a CV , sample forms and formats and a guide to interviews , £3.99 . |
| 18 | I was hoping to get back to council work before Christmas , but I recognise that if I rush , it I will only set me back . |
| 19 | ‘ But I have to get back to work , ’ she said . |
| 20 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 21 | She longed to stay where she was , listening to Penry talk in the resonant voice with the attractive trace of Welsh lilt , but she got up promptly , conscious that he probably wanted to get off to bed himself . |
| 22 | , of course , was a chapel man and er I think they saw , or some of them saw him er a in him a way round , out of things , and , of course , he did deals with the collieries to get people back to work , and whilst families had enjoyed six months in the gardens and doing all sorts of strange things , erm the men mainly wanted to get back to work , because they saw time running out . |
| 23 | ‘ It is targeted on those who need most help to get back to work , ’ said Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard . |