Example sentences of "i [vb base] get [prep] 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 | Tonight I want to get into the crowd and Lucker wants space . |
| 8 | I want to get into the habit of finishing and getting the dishwasher on and ge cleaning the kitchen completely . |
| 9 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I remember getting off the plane and being asked by the press photographers if I would give them a salute . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember getting in the car and driving through the village back to the main road … but … nothing else . ’ |
| 13 | I start by checking the nursery , where we 've got our glasshouses and propagation facilities , and I 'm always walking around — I try to get round the whole garden at least once a week . |
| 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 | ‘ I 've got to the stage where if someone said ‘ here 's £10 million ’ I 'd sell like a shot . |
| 16 | I suppose I 've got to the age when I 've started to find the past interesting . ’ |
| 17 | Let's move on to the pages I 've got to the actual format here . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well I 've got to the first one |
| 20 | I just , I , I , honestly Barry , I 've got to the stage where I believe in this conspiracy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By the time I 've got to the end of that I 'd be . |
| 23 | Yeah but I 've got to the move to the next ward soon . |
| 24 | But I 've got to the stage now where I , I can not erm I can not do any more . |
| 25 | And that 's a very extreme view and it 's c but er it 's the impression that I 've got of the flats . |
| 26 | Because I 'm afraid that all I 've got at the moment- ’ |
| 27 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
| 28 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 29 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
| 30 | His comment when he mounted the rostrum : ‘ At last I 've got up the steps today . |