Example sentences of "get [adv] to a " in BNC.

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1 Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off .
2 ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’
3 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 .
4 ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’
5 Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch !
6 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 .
7 ‘ He was a young man , and I am sure that his message got through to a great many people .
8 Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him .
9 Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds .
10 Mac got away to a quite blistering start .
11 Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds .
12 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 .
13 Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start .
14 It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is .
15 Shell , who succeeded Mike Shanahan last week , got off to a winning start thanks to the safety , Eddie Anderson , who returned an interception 87 yards for the winning touchdown early in the fourth quarter .
16 It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 .
17 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 .
18 Botham 's 57 was top score , so at least his captaincy got off to a bright start .
19 Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong .
20 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 .
21 If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start .
22 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 .
23 The election campaign also got off to a poor start .
24 Because of the condition of the ramp , action this year got off to a slow start with the ramp 's resurfacing being the prime objective .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Shops there got off to a bad start in the weeks after currency union , many demanding cut-throat prices .
28 The Premier League got off to a wonderful start as far as its detractors were concerned when Arsenal lost 4-2 at home to Norwich , a side still stubbornly refusing to go back to what is considered their rightful place near the bottom of the League .
29 THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement .
30 He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually .
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