Example sentences of "was [verb] to get [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first year of the new HCIMA programmes of study was shown to get off to a good start , with over 740 student enrolments . |
| 2 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 3 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
| 4 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 5 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 6 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 7 | Something brown was fighting to get out of the bright green of the marsh . |
| 8 | Behind him , something was fighting to get out of the door . |
| 9 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |
| 10 | It was only last summer that she was allowed to get back in the swing . |
| 11 | The Fire was started to get back at a prisoner who had refused to take part in a food boycott . |
| 12 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 13 | Or he was trying to get in through the one window in the house which was approachable from the tree side . |
| 14 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 15 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |