Example sentences of "i [verb] to get [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to get under way as soon as possible . ’ |
| 2 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 3 | Yeah well come on then cos I want to get to mum 's cos I 'll do that washing up when I come back sha n't I ? |
| 4 | oh sorry well I do n't wan na talk about that because I want to get to business |
| 5 | You see , and I says , oh man that 's exactly the very man I want to get into contact with . |
| 6 | ‘ Who 's my contact if I want to get in touch with you ? ’ |
| 7 | I 'm going to get an address for Sam anyway cos I I want to get in touch with him |
| 8 | I know what I forgot to get in town . |
| 9 | Nor do I try to get in touch with Lord Mountbatten , and I would not necessarily want to . |
| 10 | It 's just that I needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 11 | That 's how I started to get into session music . ’ |
| 12 | I began the standard evade and ignore manoeuvre I use to get by sidewalk solicitors , but I was almost stopped by the message on the sign facing the building : Do n't freeze nuclear weapons , destroy them with beam weapons . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had to get to hospital . |
| 14 | I wished to get through life along the lanes and side roads , unseen . |
| 15 | You know , just in case I need to get in touch . ’ |
| 16 | I went back to my room , trying to forget about my brother ; I wanted to get to bed early so that I could be up in time for the naming ceremony of the new catapult . |
| 17 | ‘ — and I wanted to get in touch with them , anyway , and … well … ’ |