Example sentences of "to get [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only to get on to the practical arrangements . ’ |
| 2 | As AT&T 's Bob Kavner , soon to be USL 's erstwhile chairman , says Novell 's purchase takes the emotions out , leaving people to get on to the real issues . |
| 3 | Liz wanted to get on to the exciting bits , in which Job demanded why light was given to him that was in misery , and life to the bitter in soul : in which Job desired to argue with his God : in which the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind : but she knew it would be cheating to miss out the she-asses and skip to the livelier parts , so she plodded dully on with the dull narrative . |
| 4 | This leaves us , the goldpanners , to get on with the actual preparations of the championship . |
| 5 | We need to get on with the real tasks working closely together the G M B and the Labour Party because working together will achieve the objectives of change for the good . |
| 6 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 7 | Strong muscles will also help the mother to get on with the day-to-day chores of postnatal care , such as carrying the baby and its accessories . |
| 8 | Their policy is to get in among the big clubs on merit , thus forcing television 's hand . |
| 9 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 10 | The jeep driver was pleased at the opportunity to get away for a few hours and we set off about 3 p.m. , arriving in the area of the Highland Division a short time later , after following their divisional signs along the country lanes . |
| 11 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 12 | People wanted to get away from the stereotyped chapels of plain benches , unvarnished woodwork and oil-lamps , chapels filled with the drone of ‘ psalm-singing green-grocers ’ and their families . |
| 13 | Sometimes it is good to get away from the particular disciplines of our own medium and techniques and try something else . |
| 14 | His drawings were so clear and he was always able to get directly to the important issues . |
| 15 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But it 's nice to get back on the right tracks and now we have to keep it up against Stockport on Tuesday . |
| 19 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 20 | He rasped , ‘ Are n't you longing to get back to the bright lights ? ’ |
| 21 | But what happens when you grow tired of it , Aurora — what happens when the novelty fades and you find yourself longing to get back to the bright lights of show business ? |
| 22 | This one hobbled about gamely , seemingly eager to get back to the open plains . |
| 23 | ‘ We need to get back towards the Victorian days of discipline ’ says Dr Boyson in one of his attacks on ‘ permissiveness ’ , and he is certainly not alone among Tory fundamentalists in fondly remembering the glories of empire , child labour and workhouse in Queen Victoria 's reign . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd pay the going rate , and provide a car to enable you to get around to the various stores and liaise with curtain-makers and such . ’ |
| 25 | The late night movie on BBC2 was the shot-in-Newcastle thriller Payroll , starring Billie Whitelaw as a widow swearing to get even with the armed robbers who shot her husband during a security van robbery . |
| 26 | Footwork … and Brabham the chance to get closer to the big guns . |