• Falla admitted the nerves had got to him as he prepared to serve for the match.

    BBC: Wimbledon 2010: Roger Federer survives massive scare

  • He was sharing the one bedroom apartment with four other people who he had got to know at a homeless hostel.

    BBC: Geoffrey Reed 'murdered by flatmates'

  • Despite his rivals' misfortune, Collins said he had been confident from the start and felt the pressure had got to the Englishmen.

    BBC: Collins wins dramatic 100m

  • Returning for a couple of nights a week to a familiar home whose owners they had got to know made them feel like treasured house guests.

    ECONOMIST: Business travel

  • Police said as a potential witness, Fearon told them he had got to know the victim at a care home where Mr Kershaw's wife spent her last years.

    BBC: Vincent Kershaw death: Michael Fearon jailed for murder

  • He told the audience he had got to know another part of his "family" - members of the Unhasu orchestra - who were playing with his "French family".

    BBC: Unhasu Orchestra play with Radio France Philharmonic

  • If a delivery was late, more phone calls and radio messages would be needed to find out where it had got to and every time that happened, costs would go up.

    ECONOMIST: A courier company goes online

  • However, at a meet in the Belgian city of Heusden-Zolder in July, the reigning African champion over the distance clocked 1:41.51 - the closest anyone had got to Kipketer's record.

    BBC: David Rudisha breaks 800m world record

  • Annes in 2012 was the closest he had got to winning one of the sport's four blue riband events, letting the Claret Jug slip from his grasp and into Ernie Els' hands.

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  • Eva had been impressed by that, and later, as they had got to know each other, she had been gladdened by the idea that someone she knew, a friend, almost a sister, was on her side.

    NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

  • "The feeling that things had got to such an extent that unless this was delivered, proposed, endorsed by the people, then the result would be that Labour would lose control over its heartlands and fiefdoms, " he said.

    BBC: Tories were 'wrong' on devolution

  • The farm, which is popular with families and attracts 2, 000 visitors a day at peak times, said suitable control measures were in place and it would not reopen until it had got to the root of the problem.

    BBC: Another child treated for E.coli

  • "I've done this injury before and it had got to a stage where it felt it could go at anytime, but we'll give it a rest and hopefully kick on over the next couple of days, " he said.

    BBC: Peterborough's Lee Frecklington aims for promotion

  • The officers took Hofer and the girl to the security office of the airport and in the course of the interrogation, the girl said that she had got to know Helmut Hofer several months earlier at a hotel in Mashhad.

    BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

  • Cole should have levelled soon afterwards when he ran clear and rounded Kirkland but he did not look up before firing goalwards, and failed to see that Gary Caldwell had got back to brilliantly block the ball on the line.

    BBC: West Ham 3-2 Wigan

  • One man queuing to go into the Red Sox game on Saturday specifically told me the British had got used to living with a threat because of the IRA. He felt America was moving into that phase.

    BBC: Boston attacks reignite debate on Islam and terror

  • London had got off to a dream start when Hammond and Andrew Wynyard combined to set up Tulsen Tollett.

    BBC: Reds take the points

  • The Peretz appointment sent shock waves through the defence establishment, which had got used to having one of its own as minister.

    ECONOMIST: Israel's new government

  • We had not got to dessert, which was apple pie again.

    NEWYORKER: Amundsen

  • The international group of researchers, who have published a series of articles in The Lancet, said no country had yet got to grips with the problem.

    BBC: Global governments 'must get tough on obesity'

  • The teenager had only got to bed at 1am after losing her doubles quarter-final alongside Sally Peers against Maria Kirilenko and Agnieszka Radwanska late on Wednesday evening.

    BBC: Laura Robson sweeps into Australian Open girls' semis

  • For a moment, I thought that I had got through to him that my relationship to Marie had convinced him that I knew what I was talking about.

    NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

  • They had got off to a bad start when Vasbert Drakes bowled opener Hannan Sarkar for 13 in the fifth over of the day with a ball that kept low.

    BBC: Tigers mauled by Windies

  • The work and pensions secretary said the European Commission had "got to understand" that "people shouldn't use the free movement rules just to travel around, looking for the best benefits they can get".

    BBC: UK Politics

  • We had got used to big-name foreign stars arriving at the start of each season but this year has been incredibly quiet on that front and the global economic situation means there haven't been any 'Galactico' signings.

    BBC: Jeremy Guscott's Premiership preview

  • However, he could not bring himself to do what both Ed Miliband and David Cameron have done - to admit that politicians, including himself, had got too close to the Murdochs in the hope of favours.

    BBC: A new era for politics and the media?

  • "The government figured it had to step in, it had to act before things got much worse, so it came in, it shut Washington Mutual down and arranged to sell it, " Zarroli says.

    NPR: JPMorgan Chase Buys Washington Mutual

  • Ms Homer, now chief executive of the Revenue and Customs, said there had been problems with the "transition" to the new unit in 2011 but the organisation had got better at responding to correspondence and asylum cases were being dealt with properly.

    BBC: The UK Border at Heathrow

  • But no one expects Mr Bush to veto it (as The Economist went to press, he had not yet got round to signing it).

    ECONOMIST: America's tax policy hits a new low

  • "I think with as many opportunities as we had, we got to put them in when we can, " Tavares said.

    WSJ: Miller makes 41 saves in Sabres' win over Isles

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