Example sentences of "[adv] get [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 2 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 3 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 4 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 5 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 6 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 7 | If only to get on to the practical arrangements . ’ |
| 8 | So to get back to the serious matter Mr Mayor if I may . |
| 9 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 10 | If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on . |
| 11 | Erm we 'd better get on to a few other things . |
| 12 | We said , ‘ We 'd better get back to the hotel and try to figure out this country in the morning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As I said , I 'd better get back to the hotel . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Doctor . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Operations Room . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You … you 'd better get back to the restaurant … |
| 19 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 20 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 21 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 22 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 23 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 24 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 25 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 26 | I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him . |
| 27 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 28 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 29 | Oh , well , best get back to the shop else I 'll have a queue of old women all clacking at me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Best get back to the bear-pit , eh son ? |