Example sentences of "get [adv] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 2 | On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie . |
| 3 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 5 | Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 6 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 7 | ‘ You got through to that man , then ? |
| 8 | Now he 's associated with the wrong sort of guys , so he 's gotten on to that stuff . |
| 9 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 10 | Yes , well you see I remember learning how to solve square roots by the long division method , and I do n't know whether there was a method for cube roots , but I suspect there was , but I never got on to that . |
| 11 | the contacts are and everything and I think that 's much better if it can be got down to that eventually |
| 12 | I mean we noticed that with the referrals and everything but it was purely that you had n't got down to that point to ask for them . |
| 13 | But she still stresses the necessity of an expert test — and the board 's concern that the information has not yet got through to all the householders in the area who are at risk . |
| 14 | Is it possible that in 1985 the message has got through to more hearts and minds than ever before ? |
| 15 | ‘ Obviously the message has not got through to some parts of the organisation . ’ |
| 16 | Well , I say that , but of course me and my sore back got up to all kinds of stuff . |
| 17 | They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are . |
| 18 | now now basically what we 're thinking is that no , we 're not thinking , we have n't really got round to that ! |
| 19 | Anyway I 'm delighted to see we 've at last got round to this . |
| 20 | So I got up to that one but |
| 21 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 22 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 23 | RED nosed Royal Bank staff got up to all sorts of antics to raise cash for Comic Relief '93 . |
| 24 | ‘ The Venetians got up to some tricks trying to extract as much money from the organisation as possible . |
| 25 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 26 | I trust you , you 're not a fool , you know what could happen if you got up to some mischief out there , ’ and her fingers described general obloquy with a sweeping gesture of abolition , ‘ and then you 'll never get a husband either . |
| 27 | I would n't be at all surprised to find them camping on your doorstep , once they get on to this story . |
| 28 | Before we get on to this next item , would it be a suitable place to break for , time to break for coffee ? |
| 29 | It was like , get on to those bloody phone people , he said , I was on the phone to them for half an hour , yesterday , he said have n't turned up , he said , and I organized m I work around and everything . |
| 30 | When you eventually get on to any committee it is surprising how quickly the esteem in which you are held grows when you can conduct yourself with confidence in the meetings . |