Example sentences of "he [vb past] to get [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he tried to get into the house Rhys were |
| 2 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 3 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 4 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 5 | Whelan has played in only three North Region events and six pro-ams this year , spending the rest of the time working in his father 's restaurant and glassware gift shop to earn the £1,200 he needed to get to the School . |
| 6 | Erm the inspectors used to come round and it was the number of pupils he managed to get into the county school that added a lot of points to his record . |
| 7 | He had to get to the postman before he reached the cottage . |
| 8 | Is the training course the same thing as what John was on in as much he had to get through the training course to get a position ? |
| 9 | He wanted to get to the phone-calls . |
| 10 | A large Nubian slave — the Sultan had removed his tongue so he could not speak — was manhandling this fellow because he wanted to get on the roof . |
| 11 | Or he wanted to get over the fence into the back garden . |
| 12 | He had a cat flap in the flat door if he wanted to get into the rest of the house and Fenella had thoughtfully left my kitchen window wide open so he could come and go that way via the flat roof of the kitchen extension next door . |