Example sentences of "[v-ing] to get [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they already have some practical knowledge they will be itching to get on to the floor ! |
| 2 | ‘ I know you 're wanting to get back to the hacienda . ’ |
| 3 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
| 4 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 5 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 6 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 7 | ‘ How — how are you going to get back to the château ? |
| 8 | The whole thing had the odd appearance of a brick-built Mississippi steamboat beached and panting to get back to the lake . |
| 9 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 10 | We staged with the Sultan of Oman and Muscat , and Salalah , and I can recall one evening a hit of a commotion , when one of the Wapiti crews of No 55 Squadron caused an uproar by trying to get on to the roof . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're all mad , ’ said a red-nosed Bardolphian Gefreiter , ‘ I wish I could be a prisoner : you would n't catch me trying to get back to the war ’ |