Sentence examples for come to getting from inspiring English sources
And they left, neither knowing how close they had come to getting Darkenfloxxed™ out their wing-wangs.
He accepted his award, on his knees, from Helen Mirren, remarking that, "that's the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood".
Though it suffered the weight of the saddle fine, the closest she'd come to getting astride was merely hopping up to hinge herself over its back.
Over the past several months, the closest I have come to getting a Russian politician to acknowledge the hacking claims was when a pro-Kremlin lawmaker told me that if anyone inside the Russian state was responsible — which he denied — it was probably done to show American officials that they are not the only ones who can go around meddling in other people's elections.
Up until now, the closest anyone has come to getting the full picture was the scholar and critic Stephen Medcalf, who taught Judy at university, and who became a friend of Golding's, and who wrote some years ago in an appreciation: "He looks somewhat like a bear – only a small bear.
But after all this time, the closest it has come to getting into most televisions is through its own commercials.
