Example sentences of "to get to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I preface my statement by saying ‘ look at what we 've beaten to get to second ? ’ . |
| 2 | He drifted westward to the highland coast and then only slowly north for he was in no hurry to get to Wrath . |
| 3 | How many metres do I have to walk to get to school ? |
| 4 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
| 5 | He studied in every spare moment he could find , not because he wanted to but because , in the absence of parents who would pay , he needed to win a scholarship even to get to school . |
| 6 | So you 've got a lot of stuff up in your head , you might , oh you 've got a terrible r memory , you ca n't remember anything , think of it , the thing is you can remember phone numbers and people 's names , how to get to school , |
| 7 | Every day when I get up , I ca n't wait to get to school , just to see you . |
| 8 | We have to get to school and there 's the rabbits and things to feed first . ’ |
| 9 | Where children are well motivated , well supported at home and well funded , they will be easier to teach , especially if the buildings are good , than pupils who struggle to get to school and whose parents are feckless and short of money . |
| 10 | You could say , in a letter , that you strongly support the creation of a route for walkers and cyclists from Bloomiehall Park to Muirwood Road , especially for use by children to get to school , and that to overcome the present impasse , it might be a good idea to use a Compulsory Purchase Order to acquire the land needed . |
| 11 | And and er Katie was off the day before with something and just managed to get to school that day . |
| 12 | We 've got to get to school . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry mummy had to rush us so much this morning it 's just when we 're in a rush we have to get to school on time you see , it 's a bit rotten when you 're only three is n't it ? |
| 14 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 15 | In 1960 the old church had to be re-slated at a cost of £400 and in 1960 also Mr J H Montgomery recorded some of the harvest services for the benefit of members unable to get to church because of age or illness . |
| 16 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 17 | He sent letters to the Home Secretary , Prime Minister and TV authorities during a year-long campaign to get to court and ‘ expose corruption ’ . |
| 18 | And when are you going to get to Stone Haven ? |
| 19 | Yeah well come on then cos I want to get to mum 's cos I 'll do that washing up when I come back sha n't I ? |
| 20 | He arrived at his final year at high school in good fettle and with enough good grades to get to university if he wanted . |
| 21 | As it was , my brother William ( the novelist and poet ) was the first in our family to get to university . |
| 22 | I 've never had an honorary degree before , in fact I come from a generation which found it difficult to get to university so I did n't have a degree of any kind |
| 23 | All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall . |
| 24 | Wo n't use so much petrol from now on anyway , to get to work will we ? |
| 25 | I would say something along the lines of you 've had several , talking about several ways of energy production , but once you start talking about energy transfer and storage one seems to get to electricity fairly quickly and do you want to say anything about that ? |
| 26 | We were dead lucky to get to bed without a belting on a Sunday . ’ |
| 27 | This may be due to eagerness to get to bed or to various other factors including lack of sleep , worry about contacting more senior surgical staff , lack of proper training or control by senior staff , and pressure not to leave matters that may interrupt the next day 's elective list . |
| 28 | But the famous scene of greedy eating in Tom Jones ( 1963 ) , in which Tom ( Albert Finney ) and Mrs Waters , aka Jenny Jones ( Joyce Redman ) — who may be his mother but luckily turns out not to be — rush through a huge meal in order to get to bed and ‘ devour ’ each other , actually replaces the sex scene which it appears to be prefacing . |
| 29 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 30 | Tidying up the mess and helping him or her to get to bed is not the best thing to do . |