Example sentences of "we [vb past] to get [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We endeavored to get round the South West Cape on Sunday morning but was obliged quickly to retrace our steps .
2 no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ?
3 I mean it 's one of the reasons we , we moved here , we wanted to get into the catchment area erm so I 've got no , no thoughts about private education .
4 minutes and we wanted to get into the thing .
5 However , neither of us had expected to be arrested for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ if we attempted to get on the water above the falls ; we 'd blown it !
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