Example sentences of "get [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had got only halfway to the door , however , when Naylor , with no let-up on his fury moved towards her . |
| 2 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 3 | The local television station made much of the rivalry between these two , but , in the event , Prost never got close enough to even suggest the onset of further controversy . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it , ’ he said . |
| 5 | This is a training session for , life assurance , well it 's to pro , it 's to provide permanent health insurance benefits , and whilst I think there 's evidence at the moment to suggest that obviously your health is in by smoking , erm , insurance companies have n't got round yet to saying it 's enough of a risk that it will keep you off work , although quite clearly I think it will . |
| 6 | It had got amazingly close to her too . |
| 7 | I never got near enough to her to tell her about the boxing and eventually left home as soon as I could . ’ |
| 8 | I never got near enough to him to find out . |
| 9 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 10 | got a he 's coming tomorrow you know , got the bird as well ai n't we , that 's why I got up early to I , go through deeply objective . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure , ’ she muttered , getting rather unsteadily to her feet and reaching for her jacket . |
| 12 | Make the request standing close to the child ; with a young child get down close to the height of the little one . |
| 13 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 14 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 15 | ‘ But first we must dig deeper , get much closer to INCUBUS . |
| 16 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 17 | And all I know is he 's getting literally close to home and he works for you , if you include disabling your barmen in the conditions of employment , that is . ’ |
| 18 | He ran steadily , getting ever closer to the village and to the approaching enemy . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're getting awfully close to the reef . ’ |
| 20 | But the day when he gets up there to 30 , it all changes , it really does . |
| 21 | Get as close to subject as you can |
| 22 | You get as close to it as you can and get your brother out while we deal with the hijackers . ’ |
| 23 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 24 | Sometimes , over their early morning cup of tea , Boy would tell the man about what he had watched , in the way that people often like to describe the highlights of their working day once they get back home to their partner . |
| 25 | Get really close to the happy animals at Monkey Mountain , Meerkat Mound and Penguin Bay with dramatic underwater viewing . |
| 26 | We were getting interestingly close to setting a new record . |
| 27 | Although at easter time there is some shocking bad weather sometimes , you know really cold sleety showers and it 's just a question of getting out there to the sand and get it over quickly . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if we do n't do what the Russians wish there may be the danger that they will not be ready to co-operate in getting back speedily to us the British and other Allied prisoners who fall into their hands as they advance into Germany . |
| 29 | Getting back home to Armscott Manor was a mechanical necessity , but she hardly registered the journey . |
| 30 | Walter , down below them and with the waters getting perilously close to the tops of his waders , says , ‘ Something 's rotten under here . |