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 At times , a simple piece of advice can quickly get to the heart of the matter :
7 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 .
8 It is very unlikely we will ever get to the bottom of it . ’
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 ?
11 I can hardly get to the bar . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived .
17 Well , it wo n't be this year for the competition is intense but there 's no doubt in my mind that if he sticks at it young Coates will eventually get to the top .
18 I tell you oh dear , I do n't mind and er get a couple of hours , but er , it does eventually get to the middle
19 ‘ Well , I think that anybody who studies improvising long enough will eventually get to the point where they find a way to get all twelve notes available all the time .
20 " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " .
21 Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way .
22 But that er to actually get to the stage where every health care worker 's H I V status or every patients ’ is made public knowledge is clearly not in anybody 's interest .
23 He wanted to hit a 4-iron but I thought that would never get to the hole .
24 ‘ We 'll never get to the stile , ’ gasped Billy and prepared to turn and face the animal .
25 I 'll never get to the lavatory .
26 She knew that as surely as she knew she would never get to the rave in Woodham Woods .
27 Did you never get to the stage where you to took stuff out or
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