Example sentences of "[adv] got to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 2 | Blinking politely at the assembled masses hanging on his every syllable , the poodle-headed astronomer and Friend Of Freddie swiftly got to the point of his keynote address to the CMJ Music Marathon . |
| 3 | Business chose women who had already got to the top in their careers , or were high-calibre middle managers still on their way up . |
| 4 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 5 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 6 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 7 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |
| 8 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 9 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 10 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 11 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 12 | I knew Lloyd Allen was at home as soon as I turned into Jonson Road because nobody else would have a pink ( yes , pink ) 1964 Ford Zephyr — the nearest the British ever got to a car with fins — parked outside . |
| 13 | That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks . |
| 14 | And he was looking forward again : " I do n't feel I 've ever got to the point I aim at and I do n't think I ever will , but I would like to feel that I was getting a little nearer to it each time . " |
| 15 | Off we went the next day and had nearly got to the shop when Dad spotted a relief officer . |
| 16 | I realized he could not catch them , because they had nearly got to the ship , but I did not wait to see the end of that adventure . |
| 17 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 18 | But , as I think Sir Geoffrey Gillington explained , there are other matters concerning the Ingard empire which we have n't yet got to the bottom of . |