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

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1 You may agree with honours or not , we 've done this programme a few year ago , Bill , but classless is erm , as I understand it , is to give anyone in this country erm the opportunity to get to the top .
2 Frankly , dear readers , I was getting bored waiting for the graphs to get to the point of maximum excitement .
3 However , I shall study the issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised about the length of time it takes for the grant to get to the applicant and then back to the contractor .
4 A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again .
5 Charles had earlier cut short two engagements in the Midlands to get to the school on time .
6 I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school .
7 THE Pet Shop Boys walked two miles in the rain to get to the massive Vision rave near Winchester .
8 Fly right to the platform under the last button you hit , go up and collect the arrow , go down and right , go left and right through the platforms to get to the bottom , at the bottom go up the other side of the wall , collect the star and fly left over the spikes , collect the arrow and recharge your flying abilities on the star , fly right and go down , go right to the star in the grass , collect it and fly up , push the crate down , fall down .
9 I personally prefer an external chest map pocket as you do n't have to undo the jacket to get to the map — particularly important when it 's blowing a hooley .
10 So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom .
11 You have to penetrate the hardness to get to the softness .
12 As they left the hospital , Evelyn grabbed her hand to cross the road to get to the car park .
13 In the rush to get to the tail of the pool , I stumbled over a rock , and in putting out a hand to save a bad fall , dropped the rod and line into the water .
14 We 've got to cross the river to get to the nearest shop which is about two miles away ; and in the winter when the weather is bad we 're more or less cut off .
15 Mr Deacon saved himself by running through the inferno to get to the staircase and outside .
16 Her blonde head dipped as she traced the path to get to the Colombian city .
17 As she fought her way through the crowd to get to the door , I bet myself that there would be another house on the market in Highbury by tomorrow night .
18 When the main doors were thrown open , there was a general rush of men and women in all directions , carrying umbrellas and jumping over the pews to get to the very nearest available seats , and almost immediately every seat in the church was occupied and great crowds were standing against the wall in the back galleries .
19 In January 1956 , Dulles , still apparently comforted by his country 's nuclear armoury , made his ‘ brinkmanship ’ speech : ‘ The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art .
20 Yes the classless society , no matter what background you come from you should have the ability to get to the top .
21 But there 's the travelling to get to the one the night after and seeing a different one every middle of the week .
22 The fire was discovered at 3 a.m. by a master working late , and together with two boys — one of whom climbed a waterspout to get to the juniors ' bedroom via the roof and the other operated a hand-pump in dense smoke — managed to raise the alarm .
23 ‘ And any dog worth his salt would bite open a handbag to get to the chocolate ? ’
24 ‘ I need a car to get to the town station . ’
25 Strong tactics are a must to get to the completion of the game but simple rules mean you can be playing moments after installation .
26 Give it a chance to get to the telephone .
27 It 's very windy , of course , so he decides it 's a 2-iron to get to the green and he slams it superbly but it misses right , just off the green .
28 We crossed the western main line by a bridge to get to the G.W.S. Outside the first shed was King George V. We went to see the broad gauge track layout with the transit shed and broad gauge signal and after that took a look at the carriage shed which contained some clerestory coaches .
29 The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time .
30 On a Sunday at family worship , it may be that there has been a rush to get to the service .
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