Example sentences of "they [vb past] to get [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of our discussion in Chapter 2 , it could be argued that in so doing they failed to get to the root of the problem . |
| 2 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 3 | They were not intellectually fruitful , these little exchanges , but they served to get across the message that a good soldier should be smart , disciplined to the point of pain , unquestioning in the face of authority and preferably dead . |
| 4 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 5 | He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade . |
| 6 | Somehow or other they had to get beneath the certainty and feed the seeds of doubt . |
| 7 | They wanted to get on the production line and turn out more breakfasts . |
| 8 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |