Example sentences of "[noun] to get [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you simply put up but people still have to use their cars to get from A to B you 're not actually improving the environment at all and it seems that adding added habits habits habits er it it seems to me that proposals that we have represented and which create improvement in a number of areas or reduce the cut in a number of areas will actually produce a much more balanced programme for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 2 | Brailsford deplored the incapacity of pacifists to get to grips with the larger drift of British foreign policy — the effective entry of Britain into the European alliance system . |
| 3 | Yet that was the hour at which Fen had called her , telling her of his intention to get under way . |
| 4 | Decent people kept quiet ; it would n't help Donny to get into trouble . ’ |
| 5 | It is not an attempt to get to grips with the fundamental problems of this society . |
| 6 | Clive had returned to England with his private profits from his trading and military activities , though he spent his money so fast ( largely on an unsuccessful attempt to get into Parliament ) that he was soon back in India , serving on what was becoming recognizable as the military side of the Company 's concerns . |
| 7 | This seems to tie in closely with the Eliot who pronounced himself in 1928 ‘ to refute any accusation of playing ’ possum … classicist in literature , royalist in politics , and anglo-catholic in religion , The similarities are made more comprehensible in the 1930 essay , ‘ Baudelaire ’ , where he sees Baudelaire 's Satanism as ‘ an attempt to get into Christianity by the back door . |
| 8 | And one-time teammate John Smith has contacted the Echo in an attempt to get in touch with Peter . |
| 9 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 10 | Although it took her months to get over Cerdan 's death , Edith Piaf 's desire for other men finally conquered her grief and according to her sister , Momone , ‘ she went wild , she ate her heart out , she was jealous and possessive … she howled and she locked guys up ’ . |
| 11 | Last year I set an agenda which said that ’ we needed eighteen months to get in shape for the eventual economic upturn ’ . |
| 12 | RAF planes scanned the seas and eight nations broadcast radio appeals every four hours for Birdseye to get in touch . |
| 13 | In a bid to get to France , he joined the Foreign Legion , escaping from that two days later . |
| 14 | Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner . |
| 15 | We 'll carry on what we 're doing without having to write pop songs to get to Number One . ’ |
| 16 | These problems may be recited in a familiar litany cited for all service sectors concerned with all dependency groups : services are remote from individuals and their families ; services are difficult for families and clients to get in touch with or access ; services are organisationally and professionallY fragmented , So that families and clients are unclear about who was doing what ; furthermore , services are unconnected or discontinuous , so that families and clients fall into gaps between services ; finally , the statutory agencies were not able to liaise extensively with voluntary or informal care networks However , these general observations do not point precisely to operational tasks . |
| 17 | They are given a company car to get from A to B , and their main work starts when they get there is n't it ? |
| 18 | Police are appealing for anyone who thinks they 've seen Mrs Probyn or her car to get in touch with them immediately . |
| 19 | My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape . |
| 20 | The council would like anyone who feels they can make a regular committment to visit their homes to get in touch with its social services department . |
| 21 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 22 | ‘ You have to travel through Mynydd Isa to get to Bryn-y-Baal , ’ Coun Messham said . |
| 23 | He sent letters to the Home Secretary , Prime Minister and TV authorities during a year-long campaign to get to court and ‘ expose corruption ’ . |
| 24 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 25 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 26 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 27 | Attempts in a couple of cases by parents to get in touch after years of no interest were not welcomed . |
| 28 | People at a studio might call me , or tell the act to get in touch with me direct . |
| 29 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 30 | Councillor Joan Wade , of Stockton Borough Council , said she wanted to reassure senior citizens in the Stockton area that they can still use their passes to get to Langburgh . |