Example sentences of "have to get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game .
2 Great ; he could get the little bastard without having to get up from the floor .
3 His first revolt against the culture of women 's subordination was " against my mother having to get up in the morning , like they all did , to cut the bread for the lads .
4 It 's the children crying to be fed , and having to get up in the morning and pawn whatever you 've got left to buy four rolls for breakfast or a kilo of sugar .
5 Somehow he 'd have to get up to the wood today to fetch down his Dad 's clippers and wire .
6 You did n't have to get up at the crack of dawn to work out yardages .
7 If you take advantage of our superb offer , you wo n't have to get up at the crack of dawn and drag your clubs in and out of the car boot .
8 My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work .
9 So likewise the Saturday nights here , I 'm alright I do n't have to get up in the morning .
10 ‘ All right , I 'll take you to Winchester , but you 'll have to get out of the castle on your own and meet me on the road tomorrow . ’
11 ‘ By when do I have to get out of the house ? ’
12 However , it looks like IXI may have to get down into the water to try and tickle this baby out of the flow , as DEC has its own problems to iron out .
13 ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way .
14 I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there
15 You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water .
16 We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us .
17 We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender .
18 He had to get out of the school .
19 I had to get out of the business .
20 In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van .
21 Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway .
22 ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’
23 She suddenly knew she had to get out of the house .
24 Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS .
25 And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity .
26 I do n't know how he got out , I mean our road is so difficult anyway , of course there wa , that night there were two , yeah two when them , he had to get out in the morning , but er , I mean he did it , but I expect it was a struggle
27 Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me .
28 ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station .
29 We then had to get back to the car , and after a detour that took in just about all of the countryside , we arrive back at the airport for the flight home .
30 Ideology apart , managers have to get on with the job of managing , maintaining society as a going concern , and upholding organisational goals with the cooperation of other members .
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