Example sentences of "they got to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 2 | When they got to the hospital she opened her brown leather bag to pay him and he noticed that , as well as the English money , she had some funny-looking foreign notes in her wallet . |
| 3 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 4 | Todger had never been the same since they got to Hambury . |
| 5 | The closest they got to an opinion on the two campaigns was when Andrew said that Labour 's campaign organisers had been ‘ more laid back ’ than the Tories , but his brother immediately disagreed , saying that perhaps the Conservatives had shown more flexibility in their poster plans . |
| 6 | First , it was assumed that no long-range problems would occur ; that is , that the acidifying or toxic power of the gases would be neutralised long before they got to Scandinavia or anywhere else . |
| 7 | No one knows how they got to be so diverse , though Dr Humphry Greenwood , of London 's Natural History Museum , has suggested that the water in Lake Victoria has at times been lower than now , with the fringes separated into pools . |
| 8 | They got to Ryan 's bedroom just in time to stop a bunch of kids they did n't even know putting his treasured copy of the Beatles White LP on the turntable . |
| 9 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 10 | Just as they got to Benina airfield , Lilley shouted out that there was trouble ahead — a sting of red lights across the road . |
| 11 | They got to their target area without any great difficulty , the false ‘ Germans ’ being apparently accepted at checkpoints . |
| 12 | Then they got to thinking that maybe you were dead . |
| 13 | When they got to the shop Hoomey , relieved , said goodbye . |
| 14 | When they got to the railway station in Belfast , things got even worse . |
| 15 | Remember what a dessert they got to their dinner at Falkirk . ’ |
| 16 | ( Gene Hackman was to feature in the plays when they got to New York . ) |
| 17 | But by the time they got to Maidstone that morning , Neil realised that his passenger was unlikely ever again to face any kind of questioning . |
| 18 | One of the odder aspects of the 1992 election was the anecdotal evidence from polling station officers who reported to the Market Research Society that many people tried to vote , but only discovered that they were not on the register when they got to the polling station . |
| 19 | Customers at Toys R Us buying a Knight Rider marked £29.92 would have to fork out £34.97 when they got to the till , a court heard . |
| 20 | Benny and Eve were in the window of Healy 's Hotel practising having cups of coffee so that they would look well accustomed to it when they got to the Dublin coffee houses . |
| 21 | People did n't move much once they got to a road like this one . |
| 22 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 23 | This was all very well and most wooden ships were watertight in harbour but , without exception , they all leaked when they got to sea . |
| 24 | ‘ You came up against outdoor players , many of them farmers who would simply barrel you backwards in the tight and , if they got to you , in the loose . ’ |
| 25 | By the time they got to town , most of the heavy stuff should be over . |
| 26 | Maybe she could renegotiate when they got to Plenty and she had her crystal . |
| 27 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 28 | When they got to the airport , Duncan went to the Air Information Service ( AIS ) . |
| 29 | Harper raised the cudgel to drive away the beggars who swarmed ever more threateningly the closer they got to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond 's rented house . |
| 30 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |