Example sentences of "he get [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise I 'll let him get back to work .
2 He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window .
3 When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise .
4 After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business .
5 I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch .
6 And he said he was alright over you know , that period and he said he got back to office , then two hours later he said he was in , in such great pain !
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