Example sentences of "to get [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sounded glad to get on to another subject . |
| 2 | When I go down er to get on to bottom road to pick up at Norwood Gardens |
| 3 | I said I did n't want to get on to this area because it 's you know , we could go on all night discussing whether this , well whether that . |
| 4 | I made sure I did n't put on too much weight and set myself a final goal — to get down to 13 stone . ’ |
| 5 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 6 | He wondered how early Kerrison would expect to get down to that job . |
| 7 | Rather , supporters tend to wait until the seemingly inevitable lapse of concentration in defence before expecting the side to get down to serious business . |
| 8 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 9 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 10 | However , they will not be able to get through to any polytechnic or college in the country . |
| 11 | Just what did it take to get through to this man ? |
| 12 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
| 13 | It 's incredible , I always seem to get off to these sort of starts . |
| 14 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 15 | To get back to that beginning phrase the social services committee accepts the implications of the director of social services report on the future of the departments E P H's . |
| 16 | We have to get back to that planet — she 's in grave danger . ’ |
| 17 | It seems he was totally bewildered by the streams of traffic and all the noise and was very glad to get back to rural tranquillity . |
| 18 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 19 | Presumbly Kev had been on the hotline to Wilko at half time and told him to get back to 4–4-2 asap ! |
| 20 | I think we need to get back to this kind of supportive system — that 's one sort of problem . |
| 21 | How to get back to either place after making the equivalent response to a 999 call is not clear as no P.O.D . |
| 22 | It 's going to take time for you to get back to full strength and you 've no-one to blame but yourself . |
| 23 | That was in New Zealand in February , since then Sid 's kneecap 's has been wired up , and the campaign to get back to full fitness is underway … |
| 24 | Gloucestershire cricketer , David ’ Syd ’ Lawrence is making a last-ditch attempt to get back to full fitness after his knee injury . |
| 25 | The training to be really effective and to get round to this bit monitoring evaluating training , I need a step . |