Example sentences of "get [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
3 | It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience . |
4 | ‘ He was a young man , and I am sure that his message got through to a great many people . |
5 | Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds . |
6 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
7 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
8 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
9 | The latest version got off to a controversial start when it was decided to cast stunning French actress Juliette Binoche in this most English of dramas . |
10 | THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement . |
11 | East Grinstead got off to a great start with an 11th minute goal , but in spite of their pressure — they won ten penalty corners to Holywood 's none — they seldom troubled goalkeeper Kyle Thompson . |
12 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland got off to a great start in the Woolworths Young Athletes League , winning their Northern Premier match at the Don Valley Stadium , Sheffield . |
13 | In front of over 22,000 fans Town got off to a great start , taking the lead after 34 minutes , Duncan Sheerer the scorer . |
14 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
15 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
16 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |
17 | Through William Agnew 's painting , and the notice it received , the Building Fund ( Agnew 's brainchild ) got off to a splendid start , and Agnew 's energy and his business contacts throughout Glasgow soon saw the Fund grow quickly . |
18 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
19 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
20 | In short , the event got off to a cracking start . |
21 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
22 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
23 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
24 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
25 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
26 | Wednesday , 28th August , 1839 , the first day of the Tournament , got off to a good start with a bright sun shining from a clear blue sky and the temperature high . |
27 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
28 | The hotel got off to a good start . |
29 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |
30 | The team got off to a good start on the general knowledge round , they then had to answer questions connected with local councillors ' work . |