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

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1 Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off .
2 ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’
3 Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists .
4 ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’
5 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 !
6 ‘ He was a young man , and I am sure that his message got through to a great many people .
7 Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start .
8 It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is .
9 Shell , who succeeded Mike Shanahan last week , got off to a winning start thanks to the safety , Eddie Anderson , who returned an interception 87 yards for the winning touchdown early in the fourth quarter .
10 It seemed a near miracle that it got off to a relatively smooth start , politically speaking , in 1921–2 .
11 Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January .
12 Botham 's 57 was top score , so at least his captaincy got off to a bright start .
13 Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong .
14 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 .
15 If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start .
16 At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone .
17 The election campaign also got off to a poor start .
18 Because of the condition of the ramp , action this year got off to a slow start with the ramp 's resurfacing being the prime objective .
19 Wednesday , 28th August , 1839 , the first day of the Tournament , got off to a good start with a bright sun shining from a clear blue sky and the temperature high .
20 Through William Agnew 's painting , and the notice it received , the Building Fund ( Agnew 's brainchild ) got off to a splendid start , and Agnew 's energy and his business contacts throughout Glasgow soon saw the Fund grow quickly .
21 Shops there got off to a bad start in the weeks after currency union , many demanding cut-throat prices .
22 The Premier League got off to a wonderful start as far as its detractors were concerned when Arsenal lost 4-2 at home to Norwich , a side still stubbornly refusing to go back to what is considered their rightful place near the bottom of the League .
23 THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement .
24 He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually .
25 Earlier Edberg 's attempt to win back his World No 1 ranking got off to a stuttering start when he beat Czecholslovakia 's Korda , 6–3 , 7–6 ( 11–9 ) .
26 STEFAN EDBERG 'S bid to regain his World No 1 ranking got off to a stuttering start in the IBM ATP World Championships in Frankfurt last night , writes Giles Smith .
27 She got off to a bad start on the streets as the child of Bruno Bonney , convicted pimp , pusher , armed robber and bilko artist .
28 The West Country trainer and champion jockey Peter Scudamore got off to a flying start winning the first three races with odds-on shots Mohana , Slavi and Skipping Tim .
29 DES Walker 's Italian League career got off to a hair-raising start as Sampdoria drew 3-3 with Lazio .
30 At least London 's Notting Hill Carnival got off to a trouble-free start .
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