Example sentences of "got [adv] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
| 2 | Erm , we tend to get it it 's just an exercise , but it proved a point that even in twenty minutes we were , we 'd only got through only got through to doing ideals , |
| 3 | However , I have now decided that most of the new music out there is n't worth listening to , so I 've got back to reading about music in preference to listening to it . |
| 4 | I ca nt remember much about the game really … still have nt got around to watching it again . |
| 5 | I know that the rules for feature-page articles are different from those for reviews , but I do think that Alan Clark , who was given large space on the Times ’ main feature page , could have got around to mentioning the book from which he had taken the material for his strictures of Churchill before his last two paragraphs : ‘ And yet , so docile and leader-oriented is the Conservative Party [ Whoops ! |
| 6 | ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | But Jekub did n't grumble , and he did n't keep on asking Dorcas why he had n't got around to inventing radio yet . |
| 8 | I do not know if the hon. Gentleman has got around to reading his Financial Times this morning . |
| 9 | Only that when the old mother had unexpectedly died before they had got around to converting the Daye House , they had decided to sell up and go to live in Spain . |
| 10 | There 's a little spin-dryer too , but I have n't got around to using that either . |
| 11 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 12 | It 's not surprising , therefore , that with all this emphasis upon grading the members of this department have not got around to experimenting with self-assessment , although both felt they might try and introduce something along these lines for the next fourth year . |
| 13 | Admittedly she had never got around to telling him that the invitation was off . |
| 14 | Palo Alto , California-based Neuron Data Inc has finally got around to releasing version 2.0 of its Open Interface in the UK ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 15 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 16 | When the Royal Bank bought the building in 1825 it had been the Government Office of Excise and quite correctly bore the Royal arms , although no-one had got around to updating them . |
| 17 | Interest had been so great that they had not got around to marketing the idea elsewhere . |
| 18 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 19 | To her surprise , the gunfire did n't seem to be directed at them , and she wondered if the rebels and soldiers had finally got around to fighting each other directly . |
| 20 | He 'd never got around to closing the deadlock . |
| 21 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact , we have n't got around to returning it yet . ’ |
| 23 | She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it . |
| 24 | Perhaps that 's what you intended doing and never got around to doing |
| 25 | Cleary wanted to include the imprimatur ‘ Official ’ in his title but somehow the Rugby Football Union , despite weighing in with pieces by the President and the Secretary , never got around to giving its official blessing . |
| 26 | Anyway , it was nice to hear from you , although I have n't got around to responding until now . |
| 27 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 28 | I put on a stone after a recent holiday and I have n't got round to getting it off . |
| 29 | She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was . |
| 30 | And I know it 's not , not saying there 's anything wrong with it , just had n't got round to writing it . |