Example sentences of "get [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 2 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 3 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 4 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 5 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 6 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 7 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 8 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 9 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 10 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 11 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 12 | Holywood got through to the final last year so they will be hoping for another good run this year . |
| 13 | I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver . |
| 14 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 15 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 16 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 17 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 18 | These schemes are notorious for corruption , but something has got through to the poor . |
| 19 | Callers sometimes misdial and think they have got through to the local barracks or Lingfield garage . |
| 20 | This ended in the closure of the French Consulate in Canton , and a freeze on contracts to French companies — and the company 's ultimate ownership does not seem to have got through to the Chinese . |
| 21 | So my outburst had got through to the big dog — he knew I was n't going to stand any more nonsense from him . |
| 22 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 23 | And then you get on to the chemical properties of it . |
| 24 | The real conflicts arise when people get on to the cerebral cortex . |
| 25 | it 's all because of this change of money you see and then when we get on to the new |
| 26 | ‘ Get on to the American Consulate ! |
| 27 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 28 | But Mick Gowar 's funny , touching poems So Far So Good ( Penguin Plus , £1.99 ) , about school and work , families and first love , get right to the real heart of a teenager 's life . |
| 29 | ‘ CONGRATULATIONS , ’ said one of my Welsh male colleagues ‘ on getting on to the assisted places scheme . ’ |
| 30 | That 's getting on to the right . |