Example sentences of "[noun] to get [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 2 | Timmy would spend hours happily banging them together or against the bars or , as now , slobbering against one of the stones in an attempt to get it into his mouth . |
| 3 | We are likely to repeat previous styles to get us through the pain , but a point can be reached where the old ways no longer work . |
| 4 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 5 | Now of course with wardrobes that are three foot wide it 's an impossibility to get them up the stairs . |
| 6 | At about 30 yards ' ( 27 m ) range , he began his charge , relying on speed to get him to the target before the pigs knew what was about to hit them . |
| 7 | ‘ It would take more than a ring to get me into your bed , ’ she retorted furiously . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe all you need is a ring to get you into my bed . ’ |
| 9 | Can you possibly , to oblige an old friend , lay on an engine and one coach to get us to Regina tonight ? |
| 10 | I heard you trying to persuade and then threaten this young lady to get her into your car , and it 's not the first time I 've witnessed such a thing . |
| 11 | Well I do n't know what it does , but the only reason you ca n't get it off is you 're not working it , it 's hard work to get it off Dawn . |
| 12 | In nineteen eighty two , a loaf was thirty seven P and in ninety sorry eighty two , thirty seven P , ninety two , it 's fifty four P and er I 'm reliably informed by er my wife that you can actually get loaves less than that if you go to the er large supermarkets where they 're discounting the bread to get you in the store obviously . |
| 13 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 14 | You 'll feel like a Hollywood star during the journey as the classy chauffeur-driven vehicle comes complete with a television and video and there will be champagne on ice to get you in that million dollar mood ! |
| 15 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 16 | ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 . |
| 17 | Used to be a time when Mammy had a job to get you into one of those pretty dresses of yours , remember ? |
| 18 | He has hired Seth Riggs to get him in fine voice for the new musical I 'll Do Anything . |
| 19 | In this roadside check , drivers with one or two suspect tyres were given fourteen days to get them into shape . |
| 20 | Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance . |
| 21 | Well , okay , now it it may be that one of the things that that relates to again is the meeting that we talked about , erm and the need to get them around the table and begin to talk about those sort of things . |
| 22 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 23 | I 'm now on Valium to get me through all this and feel desperate with worry about how I 'll manage alone . |
| 24 | The generous buffet is both pleasing to the eye and the taste buds , with free wine to get you in the mood for an evening of entertainment . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
| 26 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 27 | because we have , because it 's for the children , so I said we 'll do it , but that gives us an awful crush to get it in Friday the first week |
| 28 | The phone wo n't ring because there 's a two-second delay to get you into the device . |
| 29 | The software needs a lot of work before it 's mature and the current situation puts OSF and DCE vendors in a race to get it to that point before the marketplace grows leery of it . |
| 30 | Here are 10 New Year resolutions to get you in the mood . |