GR translation: get on to the operations room

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 08:16:43 CST 2011


"get on to" would be a British version of "go to."

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P7.18-23   Oughtn’t he to be doing something . . . get on to the
> operations room at Stanmore, they must have it on the Channel
> radars—no: no time, really. Less than five minutes Hague to here (the
> time it takes to walk down to the teashop on the corner . . . for
> light from the sun to reach the planet of love . . . no time at all).
> Run out in the street? Warn the others?
>
> What is "get on to"?  Does it mean to get on the phone?



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