Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 2 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 3 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 4 | It was what actors call a total ‘ corpse ’ , and , although they managed to get through to the end of the play , any tension they might have built up was dissipated . |
| 5 | In the men 's singles contest , managed to get through to the semi final while in the triples contest , and from Draught Stout joined from Brewing to win through as far as the semi finals . |
| 6 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 7 | Only two candidates ( Dominique Voynet in the Jura and Christine Barthet in Haut-Rhin ) managed to get through to the second round on March 28 but neither was then elected . |
| 8 | Once , landing from the submarine HMS Tigris , his fellow canoeist — a Free French soldier — lost his boat in rough water , but they managed to get back to the submarine . |
| 9 | Like many experts in this line he finds his days are taken up by writing and talking about gardening , with precious little time left to get down to the gardening himself . |
| 10 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 11 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 12 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 13 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |
| 14 | We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home . |
| 15 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 16 | I wanted a second mate 's ticket ; I wanted to get on to the bridge and do things . |
| 17 | Liz wanted to get on to the exciting bits , in which Job demanded why light was given to him that was in misery , and life to the bitter in soul : in which Job desired to argue with his God : in which the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind : but she knew it would be cheating to miss out the she-asses and skip to the livelier parts , so she plodded dully on with the dull narrative . |
| 18 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 19 | Terry did n't want any truck with service medicos , he just wanted to get back to the States and see Madeleine , Sulome and Gabrielle . |
| 20 | I expect had enough sitting around wanted to get back to the bit like mews |