Example sentences of "we get [adv] to a " in BNC.

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1 Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off .
2 Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists .
3 He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually .
4 ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start .
5 Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now .
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