Example sentences of "[adv] get to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 2 | He had better get to the headmaster and warn him . |
| 3 | You might just get to a goal that is difficult to master , or you could find that when you are about half-way through your goals you get stuck and can go no further . |
| 4 | If she could just get to the phone box — The car cruised along at her speed . |
| 5 | can I just get to the washer ? |
| 6 | They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way . |
| 7 | If you can not get to a manicurist , the following hints will help you achieve a salon finish for yourself at home . |
| 8 | ‘ Some Allen 's West passengers who have hitherto caught the 16.29 from Middlesbrough tell me that they can not get to the station in time for its rescheduled departure at 16.21 . |
| 9 | A Guards officer who left recently told us : ‘ Blacks do not get to the depot . |
| 10 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 11 | The midfield can not get to the by-line to cross the ball . |
| 12 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 13 | ‘ When he serves like that you can not get to the ball , ’ said the Swede . |
| 14 | We did not get to the top of Helvellyn . |
| 15 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 16 | Access is also discussed in relation to those who can not get to the library — the housebound and the institution-bound , those who have limited mobility , and those whose behaviour is ‘ unorthodox ’ in some way . |
| 17 | Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers . |
| 18 | He did not get to the end of the sentence . |
| 19 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 20 | At times , a simple piece of advice can quickly get to the heart of the matter : |
| 21 | The blue-green pillars of Hamelin Pool are living stromatolites and the groups of them standing on the sun-dappled sea-floor are as close as we may ever get to a scene from the world of two thousand million years ago . |
| 22 | It is very unlikely we will ever get to the bottom of it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You mean that the world was once so simple , and suddenly it 's full of amazingly interesting things that you 'll never ever get to the end of as long as you live . |
| 24 | The list included the JONA 22 self-launching aircraft which appears to have been an Italian invention — did it ever get to the production or prototype stage ? |
| 25 | I can hardly get to the bar . ’ |
| 26 | We had a quick , worried debate about whether to call an ambulance but decided we 'd probably get to the hospital quicker under our own steam . |
| 27 | Most learn by trial and error that they can never really get to the bottom of the problem if they did not witness it and so emphasize the importance of sharing and co-operating in the family so everyone stays happy . |
| 28 | You 've got to really get to the right of that red , so can rush it down to the , left of that hoop with the red paint on it . |
| 29 | I play every saturday so do n't often get to the home games either , I 've not attended H.Q. at all this season . |
| 30 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |