11.   The ostensible reason for the meeting turned out to be a trick to get him to the surprise party.

12.   Asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party.

13.   They bunkered just enough coal to get them to the port.

14.   You do not have to devise ways of taking your mind off the journey, for an aeroplane gets you to your destination rapidly.

15.   The degree to which people get involved in societies varies a great deal.

16.   So he was pleased enough that MacMinimum was a hard rider and got them to Tipperary in only two days.

17.   Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome, riding fast and wearing out horses on the way.

18.   Others cash in by selling aircraft as soon as they get them to consortiums of banks and investors -- and then lease them back.

19.   Say you got me to Ireland and dropped me off, then got shot down by a British night-fighter off the French coast on your way back.

20.   Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said.