Example sentences of "to getting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's a quickie guide to getting straight into a game … |
| 2 | Finally the Director brought the whole thing to a close ; he pulled his papers towards him , preparatory to getting up and said , |
| 3 | They do it for to keep him going and then they 'll say he says you know I 'm used to getting up at half four and going so many miles every morning for a big jog . |
| 4 | Too many barriers to getting well trained |
| 5 | There 's an art to getting on and off the thing — most people fall the first few times . |
| 6 | This improvement was substantial : from slightly worse than myopic on the first attempt , the average improved to getting on for 40% of the difference between the optimal and the myopic on the second . |
| 7 | I should like to thank all our workforce , the majority of whom are of course remaining with the company , for their impressive commitment to getting on with the job in hand , despite the company 's problems . |
| 8 | I 'd never do what I do now if it was n't for Summerhill 's free-wheeling , timeless , non-routine approach to getting through when life 's off the rails . |
| 9 | Hence part of the challenge is to find ways to getting through to the uninitiated so that a much larger proportion of adults have some insight into what mathematics is about . |
| 10 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 11 | Yes , by the time it comes to getting round to your complaint you 've moved on . |
| 12 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 13 | " Oh , I think he was accustomed to getting away with a great deal . |
| 14 | Prior to getting around to the job I have to do , and that is to honour those men that gave their lives so that we could be free , I 'd like to just share a few things with you as we return to this wonderful country . |
| 15 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 16 | You do n't get any irrelevant features and facilities , partly because developers of DOS Software have got used to getting more out of less . |
| 17 | Once the patient is used to getting out of the house , he can go out for social occasions . |
| 18 | The idea was to record and tour with the band , but Knopfler saw an essentially fun project with his mates develop into something which came close to getting out of hand . |
| 19 | ’ Curb , ’ she broke in , ’ I should tell you that I 'm never closer to getting out than when you start sanctimonious about how you operate ’ . |
| 20 | The departmental systems maybe mission critical in other words they may be important to them you know they may be necessary to doing business to getting out orders or what have you . |
| 21 | Really , it was because she looked forward to getting out of the house by herself ! |
| 22 | He 's looking to getting out of the hospit looking forward to a , a change |
| 23 | Whatever happened to getting together with your friends or family and talking together ? |
| 24 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 25 | She had been reluctant to put it away , wishing she had no other commitments so that she could continue with the next chapter and looking forward to getting down to work again the following morning . |
| 26 | So I think there 's an element still to come out in , in that area , er but if you look at er , er the er issue generally , there 's a lot in the White Paper on er more than I expected actually , on energy efficiency , which I think is one of the keys to getting down er levels of carbon dioxide , and there is discussion about some of the many many ways in which the role of the motor car will affect er how we reduce our C O two . |
| 27 | ‘ These are the steps along the road to getting there . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm looking forward to getting back home and sitting by the fire . |
| 29 | Last week Mr Cojuangco came close to getting back on the board of San Miguel , the country 's largest firm , which he once controlled . |
| 30 | We spent some time away from each other just to do our own things , but now we 're looking forward to getting back to how things were , lock ourselves away and work . |