Example sentences of "get [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was n't careful they would get on to the subject of the motorway . |
| 2 | Talking about valuable commodities , when are we gon na get on to the subject of |
| 3 | ‘ How did you get on to the subject of love ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll get on to the emergency services immediately . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you get on to the contract cleaners ? ’ she asked Lucenzo , working through her check-list . |
| 6 | Why do n't you get on to the negotiating team at the trade talks ? ’ |
| 7 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 8 | ‘ You will kindly get on to the telephone and call up your revolutionary children . |
| 9 | You bring him back tomorrow or I 'll get on to the police . ’ |
| 10 | Also he 's gon na sort that out and he 's gon na get on to the police station now to explain that you do n't own the bike . |
| 11 | If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on . |
| 12 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 13 | She would be sure to make such a song and dance about her aching feet that she would get right to the head of the queue for the room-key — well , apart from Mrs Roscoe , naturally ! ’ |
| 14 | How did you get in to the house ? ’ |
| 15 | I said she ca n't get in to the shop . |
| 16 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 17 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 18 | ‘ If I were you I 'd get down to the racecourse pronto . ’ |
| 19 | Now if we could get down to the sale of this house and the contents … ? |
| 20 | She would get down to the city centre somehow . |
| 21 | ‘ How in God 's heaven will I get down to the coast in this mess ? ’ |
| 22 | And you 've got a journey before you , you two , so let's get down to the business of the day . |
| 23 | Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come . |
| 24 | ‘ Let's get down to the business now . |
| 25 | You must have got the message by now , so let's get down to the details . |
| 26 | It used not to matter , because they dredged a deep-water channel from Emmerton to here , to let the ships get through to the port . |
| 27 | Well the agent , that be either or any agent who , who the ship belonged to , see they 'd , they 'd get through , no doubt they 'd get through to the merchants and er they 'd find out who the agent is and once they knew the agents well it was plain sailing was n't it ? |
| 28 | Even if the phone was answered , the client might not get through to the person he wanted . |
| 29 | How many times during a day do we actually get through to the person we need to speak to ? |
| 30 | Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition . |