Example sentences of "they get to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get to the school sports and they say , where 's your dad ? |
| 2 | The pupils who do complain usually retract their allegations long before they get to the state where the teacher might be held to account . |
| 3 | It 's often easier for children if you make the choice on their behalf , and it saves time if they know the groups they 're going to work in before they get to the hall or drama space . |
| 4 | When they get to the hotel have someone to greet them , someone who knows names , and can help with transport , luggage , the pre-registration formalities . |
| 5 | If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you . |
| 6 | Some people even leave radios on in the house , so that there 's not only the light on , but if somebody does walk up the drive intending to knock on the door to test it , before they get to the door they can hear a noise , they turn around and go back . |
| 7 | really cheesed off yeah , they do n't make it , they get to the door and that 's it , and you think of what the hell |
| 8 | ‘ I hope they get to the top , but it will be difficult . ’ |
| 9 | That type of thing , or they were A types and they learned to modify their behaviour , and survived or the A types are dead before they get to the top . |
| 10 | These questions are important ones , because they get to the heart of our concern about higher education . |
| 11 | Under the new regime , the Ministry of Agriculture only tests animals when they get to the farm , if they 're told about it . |
| 12 | They have all seen the game on TV , they know that if they get to the table they can build big breaks and if you make one mistake they go for your jugular . |
| 13 | The lower they go , the closer they get to the point where even a small amount of cheating could upset the balance alarmingly . |
| 14 | In this modern Jurassic jungle so many live as singles in bedsitters , never even having a cup of coffee until after they get to the office . |
| 15 | By the time they get to the pool his pupils have lost their anxiety . |
| 16 | Always read your press releases through very carefully , possibly get somebody else to read them through , because they will pick up the spelling mistakes , the grammatical mistakes , the punctuation errors , and they will see , when they get to the end , and say , ‘ But you have n't told us when it is . ’ |
| 17 | ( They try ‘ West End Girls ’ but as they get to the line about The Finland Station , Wayne somersaults over the keyboard , does that crap dance that vaudevillians do where they move their hands across their knees , makes a shadow puppet of a seagull in the beam of one of the lasers , does the hitch-hike from Saturday Night Fever , and gobs on Derek Jarman . |
| 18 | They get to the stage where they 've clogged themselves up with the the by-products , so part of making a battery is trying to design it so it does n't clog itself up . |