Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] get [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting .
2 and I says , Good afternoon could I speak to the person that does advertising etcetera , and I get through to that particular person , and I said , How would you like to save money by us printing all your portfolios free of charge high quality er portfolios it would n't cost you a penny .
3 What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ?
4 I was getting forty and I got up to ninety four .
5 Anyway , Mr Middleditch came through once more and I got through to Lisabeth on Stuart Street .
6 Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch !
7 Aye er the when I was I got better and I got down to and there was a fella come to look and see me .
8 He said , Let's get in here and we got in , he got into one bunk at one side and I got in to t other .
9 You get them round that way , and eventually you ask them about themselves , and you get round to it .
10 And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card .
11 Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded .
12 Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet .
13 and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree
14 It may well fall off , but if it does fall off and everything gets back to normal it 'll grow back again .
15 Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ?
16 so anyway , she hires so he hires this prostitute and they , they go upstairs and he gets a bit hungry so sarnie and they get down to the serious business
17 Of course I did n't say anything , but I must have reacted in some way and it got through to him , because he seemed more relaxed from that point on .
18 and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was .
19 ‘ Ron Atkinson enjoys life and football and it gets through to everyone at Aston Villa .
20 But I got down to ten stone .
21 Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission .
22 There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’
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