Example sentences of "i [verb] get to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean to get to the bottom of it , ’ said Lydia , only without much conviction . |
| 2 | Judge Harry Walker , who gave Jim bail yesterday , told him : ‘ I intend to get to the bottom of this . ’ |
| 3 | I want to get to the top of the table as quickly as possible , and we need to add to the squad . ’ |
| 4 | Look , I know something 's going on here — and I want to get to the bottom of it . ’ |
| 5 | Last night Marine Ian Mallard 's father , Malcolm , declared : ‘ I want to get to the bottom of things once and for all . ’ |
| 6 | erm I want to get to the homes you know the old er |
| 7 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 8 | I picked another horse , in the race before — I 'd got to the bookie 's at about half-past two , I suppose . |
| 9 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 10 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 11 | Was I going to get to the Sanctum before nightfall ? |
| 12 | Usually I start in my bedroom and I like to get to the top of the stairs by the baby 's lunchtime , and then I stop and give them lunch and then I carry on and get on quite well . |
| 13 | I managed to get to the wine bar the other side of St Paul 's in time to pick up Rebecca and the bar staff did not seem sad to see her go . |
| 14 | ‘ And I never get time to read , or think , or do anything worthwhile , and I 'm always so sleepy when I do get to the classes that I ca n't take in very much . |
| 15 | Eventually , I did get to the village , which perches high on a hillside above the Vltava . |
| 16 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 17 | I had got to the stage with one particular chair when even a mallet and chisel was being limited by the design . |
| 18 | I should wait until I had got to the prison camp and then escape . |
| 19 | ‘ I had got to the front door when it exploded on top of me . |
| 20 | I had got to the beach , but I still had to find the dinghy — and Joanna . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got to the stage where if someone said ‘ here 's £10 million ’ I 'd sell like a shot . |
| 22 | I suppose I 've got to the age when I 've started to find the past interesting . ’ |
| 23 | Let's move on to the pages I 've got to the actual format here . |
| 24 | You have to do the detail sequence er so for the tank farm this is , here I 've got to do the formwork before the reinforcement before the concrete or the other way round , I 've got to the reinforcement before the formwork before the concrete . |
| 25 | Well I 've got to the first one |
| 26 | I just , I , I , honestly Barry , I 've got to the stage where I believe in this conspiracy . |
| 27 | I 've got to the point now , I kick him and tell him to turn over , he turns it over and it 's just as bad as before . |
| 28 | By the time I 've got to the end of that I 'd be . |
| 29 | Yeah but I 've got to the move to the next ward soon . |
| 30 | But I 've got to the stage now where I , I can not erm I can not do any more . |