Example sentences of "he get [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , he consistently neglected the search for sponsorship and , when in desperation he got around to looking for it , it was too late . |
| 2 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 3 | I 'd just like to know what he got up to when he took his wig off , that 's all ! |
| 4 | Extracting information on what he got up to there is n't easy . |
| 5 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 6 | No matter what he got up to , Constance did n't want to see him damaged : it was the women she blamed , the tarts who ran after him . |
| 7 | The guy the train driver was better , when he got up to , he was brilliant |
| 8 | Yeah must of done , he got up to three weeks to move in |
| 9 | He got up to as far as the doorway , but I do n't think any further . |
| 10 | He got through to the base camp to find out when the chap was coming to fix it . |
| 11 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 12 | What did he yeah he got through to Russia . |
| 13 | When pressed as to why he thought this was , he got on to what I later found was a cause he would die for . |
| 14 | ‘ Aye ; well ’ — he got on to his feet now — ‘ it takes somebody to expose it . |
| 15 | He got on to his knees , then rose in a crouch and hit Pascoe full on the chest with a tight fist . |
| 16 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 17 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 18 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 19 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 22 | After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business . |
| 23 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When he got back to Cambridge Michael ( still a boy of 15 ) read Romanes . |
| 26 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 27 | He collapsed with a dangerous fever and inflammation when he got back to Glasgow . |
| 28 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 29 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 30 | He got back to his own desk and sat , looking at his hands , unable to decide whether to ring her up , or what to say . |