Example sentences of "[conj] get [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They understand the many options available to savers and are trained to ask questions that get straight to the heart of the matter . |
| 2 | Anyway , so that gets back to the thing over policy . |
| 3 | The terrain being flat , the wind tore across scrub and heathland unimpeded , and the snow it drove ahead of itself banked against our cottage , so that to get out to the pump we had to dig ourselves a path . |
| 4 | This certainly overstates the situation , but there is no doubt that party leaders in Parliament like to keep a free ( and vague ) policy hand , and in their speeches and campaigning around election time they are more likely to attack opponents and invoke positive symbols than to get down to the specifics of their own party programmes . |
| 5 | She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house . |
| 6 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 7 | Chinless looked up again and got back to the driver 's seat and headed east . |
| 8 | But by the time the police had secured the exemption and got back to the brothel , the keeper would have changed his nationality and they would have to start all over again . |
| 9 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 10 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 11 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 12 | Obviously they had no idea what lay ahead after they had crossed the bridges and got close to the enemy positions . |
| 13 | Erm , what , the nice shot is to get back up to , there and get over to the yellow . |
| 14 | Fig 27 As you pass through the eye of the wind you need to transfer both back hand and foot to the mast and get round to the other side as quickly as possible ; a small jump is often the best way . |
| 15 | ‘ Will you go down to the town , to the nearest phone box and get on to the station ? |
| 16 | Back along with the back to what you would call the sea crossing er to and get on to the Rousay pier then and get a dinghy or something and row across to Wyre . |
| 17 | If we 're having a training session and they feel something 's not going right , I want them to say so , to get it sorted out and get on to the next thing . |
| 18 | Cancel the wedding or the holiday , sell the theatre/football/movie tickets , put the dog in kennels and get down to the Wembley Exhibition Centre … sharpish ! |
| 19 | Kids in shorts can stick My Own Meal , Kids Kitchen and Kid Cuisine ( all from Campbells ) in the little box , turn the knob , wait briefly , unload , zap down their food and get back to the major business of life , the latest video . |
| 20 | Did the Notting Hillbillies project help you to get away from the pressures of ‘ stardom ’ , and get back to the ‘ pub band ’ gig situation ? |
| 21 | Finally , the lead pickup alone is placed as usual at the end of the track , so you can still clobber the switch hard right and get back to the classic , hard-edged Telecaster tone . |
| 22 | ‘ So all we have to do is get out of here , and get back to the TARDIS . ’ |
| 23 | And get back to the designs and see what could be improved upon and what have you . |
| 24 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 25 | Ramlal longed to complete his mission and get back to the peace of the village . |
| 26 | Visitors were able to see sheep shearing and cattle milking and get close to the docile farm animals . |
| 27 | While this beginning is effective in showing organisation , it delays getting into the argument , and could be rewritten in the following way , which both demonstrates organisation less clumsily and gets immediately to the point : Since the terms " lyrical " and " epic " present special difficulties when used of Middle English works , it is useful to introduce discussion of works of the period with a brief analysis of these two terms . |
| 28 | But getting back to The Case is Altered : I supposed that if the people got browned off , as we call it , they 'd have a settin' in . |
| 29 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 30 | ‘ I go by there most days , ’ said the farmer , proving himself to be the sort of chap who does not mess about but gets straight to the point . |