Example sentences of "[prep] getting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was terrible on drugs , shouting , swearing … ‘ ) , of her daughter being taken into care and being kept there when she come out of hospital after getting off the doctors ’ drugs . |
| 2 | Association with the cloth trade was a necessary step towards getting to the top in Coventry , and when wealthy baker Thomas Astelen became mayor in 1529 he was described as a clothier . |
| 3 | Do we have any ‘ instrument ’ or means of getting at the truth ? |
| 4 | I saw his words as a way of getting at the Countess . |
| 5 | There is no such deductive way of getting at the skill description . |
| 6 | One way of getting at the varieties of relationship in these poems is to group them , not too dogmatically , into poems where the I dominates , and those where the Thou carries more weight . |
| 7 | Even worse , some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts . |
| 8 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 9 | Another way of getting at the question of disciplinary spaces is to ask about the boundaries of the discipline . |
| 10 | Questions about the ‘ core ’ and ‘ boundary ’ of a discipline imply a spatial or territorial metaphor ; but another way of getting at the nature of disciplines is to explore their internal structure . |
| 11 | Concealment for the purpose of getting at the truth received encouragement from the courts in their refusal . |
| 12 | As the DEA was plainly out to get him , and had blocked all access to the files he needed to clear himself , the only avenue open to him was to work with Pan Am , in the common interest of getting at the truth , using his training and experience to piece together the best defence he could . |
| 13 | Establishing rapport is the process of getting on the right wavelength with someone — usually , but not inevitably , with someone you are meeting for the first time . |
| 14 | And erm so er er if people do that And er this this businessman , this week , he he rang and he he was sending messages via the secretary , instead of getting on the phone to me and and me finding out what there was , he finally he s he said There 'll be about an hour 's work . |
| 15 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |
| 16 | Fraganes , a good way of getting to the more remote spots — it makes an eleven-hour round trip regularly , several times each week — — has gone , and no one is going my way . |
| 17 | He worked out there were one hundred and seventy-three different ways of getting to the library from the dining room and fifty-two different ways of getting from his dormitory to the nearest toilet , which was only a few yards from the dormitory itself . |
| 18 | ‘ You should know by your age , Lachlan , there 's more ways of getting to the other side of a mountain than by chewing through it . |
| 19 | It may be more practical to use a commode for night-time toileting , even if the patient is capable of getting to the toilet when fully awake . |
| 20 | The remaining arrangements of music by Borodin , Chopin , Rimsky , Liszt and Tchaikovsky hardly maintain this level of emotional charge , but if you want to stand any chance of getting to the end of your meal , that 's probably just as well ! |
| 21 | His only friend is the tubercular and crippled Ratso Rizzo , who dreams of getting to the sunshine of Florida one day . |
| 22 | From the point of view of people seeking work , the kin group continues to provide a reliable and up-to-date information network and a means of getting to the head of the queue of potential employees . |
| 23 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 24 | One of the best ways of getting to the heart of a character is to put him or her into a situation of extreme testingness . |
| 25 | The details of getting to the house her brother shared with three other students in Cambridge now seemed more intractable than she had foreseen . |
| 26 | Pascoe 's original position , behind the dinghies , had cut off the route to the storage hut and that other means of getting to the street . |
| 27 | At first I could n't see a way of getting to the bus station at two o'clock in the afternoon because we were never free at that time , but my chance came quite unexpectedly . |
| 28 | Now he 's found , but if there 's a hope of getting to the truth about Sabine Jourdain in the next day or two I could linger . ’ |
| 29 | The older boy thought of the achievement of getting to the top of Glory Hill without getting off . |
| 30 | In any case other activities got in the way of getting to the Sunday services , but I managed the rehearsals and some weekday 5pm services . |