Example sentences of "get [pers pn] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 2 | Some involved navigation got me across to the door and into the other room . |
| 3 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 4 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 5 | It loses impact does n't it because a the power of the voice is hit against there , b it 's very rude to talk while I 've got me back to you as well so people yes lose interest . |
| 6 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 7 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 8 | Marie 's got her back to me , watching the telly . |
| 9 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 10 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 11 | We have now got him down to 10 pints and a bucket of chips . |
| 12 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 13 | Okay right , stop , stop , stop please , you 're out of your heads if you have n't got it on to paper . |
| 14 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 15 | All over Austria , children are included in adult activities to a much greater extent than in Britain , but in the Alpine province of Vorarlberg they 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 16 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 17 | Now he 's got it down to as little as a couple of weeks . |
| 18 | Oh we 've got it down to absolute fine art now ! |
| 19 | Howey has got it off to a T : so far , she has thrown many of her top opponents with it , including Emanuella Pierantozzi , the Italian world title-holder , who only just managed to twist out and avoid a score in the last world championships . |
| 20 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 21 | Well you get them up to stage one fairly quickly , it 's the stage two is n't it . |
| 22 | It a is actually a lot better because you can get them usually get them down to about five p a copy . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd say that you 're being totally rude and arrogant , ’ Alyssia snapped , ‘ and I 'd also say that I think a meal out with André will more than get me back to my old , charming self ! ’ |
| 24 | damp and If you get me back to mum 's for about three o'clock time at the latest to take her to Osborne House . |
| 25 | It gets me closer to my ultimate goal , doing all I can to enhance the environment we live in . |
| 26 | That is often the spur which gets them back to a proper relationship with the almighty car . |
| 27 | Mothers no doubt think they are doing the very best for their children , getting them off to a good night 's sleep . |
| 28 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 29 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 30 | ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect . |