Example sentences of "[adv] to get the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 2 | Different people kept chipping in with their ideas of what would fire the national imagination sufficiently to get the people to the polling booths . |
| 3 | You need to make a conscious effort especially to get the tune right — at the beginning you will probably feel that you sound strange and maybe affected , but that is only because the intonation patterns are new to you . |
| 4 | And always , at the back of his mind , there was the business with the Police ; a mere shadow , as he repeatedly reminded himself , without substance , but there just the same and often , as he went through Ostkreuz on the S-Bahn , he was tempted to get off and see Lieutenant Werner , merely to get the matter sorted out once and for all but , mindful of Bodo 's advice , he never did . |
| 5 | ’ Lots of people want to help and the walkers and farmers can work together to get the job done . ’ |
| 6 | The construction of this scale is a little unusual , but with practice it should n't take long to get the hang of . |
| 7 | Better to get the job done cost-effectively through your own people and share the profit with them . |
| 8 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 9 | For this reason , if you are lucky enough to get the chance to become a PA , because of the number of people trying to get started , you 'll find pay is n't brilliant to begin with . |
| 10 | Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more . |
| 11 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 12 | What Hodgkinson achieved in English terms was to elevate goalkicking to an art form with the metronomic rhythm of his swing and the low trajectory , more often than not just enough to get the ball over the bar . |
| 13 | I auditioned along with everyone else and was lucky enough to get the part . |
| 14 | In these cases the arc of movement of the rig is not great enough to get the CE sufficiently behind the CLR and so the board becomes unresponsive . |
| 15 | If we talk to people only enough to get the job done , we miss out on the added pleasure we can get from developing relationships at work . |
| 16 | Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured . |
| 17 | He started shaking if you said ‘ Hello ’ too loudly and for several hours after his punishment felt very hungry because he could n't hold a knife and fork long enough to get the food into his mouth . |
| 18 | Pest Control branches were scoured for a bubble big enough to get the van into , and the London East fumigators — Brian Bacon , Ian Buchan and Terry Hart carried out a successful fumigation . |
| 19 | a lot of the lab work done here anyway , everyone knows what the results should be , it just seems a waste of time because you know the equipment 's not good enough to get the results you should be getting , so you spend most of your time writing why your results have n't come out . |
| 20 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |
| 21 | It could n't be the same Rover , because they 'd have recognised the car , although he hoped they had n't stopped long enough to get the number . |
| 22 | There er erm other er matter that er erm I er wanted to mention erm if only to get the word sustainability on to the tape that is being recorded on the |
| 23 | The UK , which had wanted two overseas judges , was said to have backed down to get the court functioning quickly . |
| 24 | It down to get the line at the bottom . |
| 25 | They creaked awake and set to rousing the fire and cooking breakfast , the Hearthwares cursing the chill weight of their armour , hopping up and down to get the blood moving through their limbs . |
| 26 | A game is basically a manoeuvre that people indulge in to get the strokes they need and/or to be in a position to discount others . |
| 27 | So it was quite a simple job and of course , as yard inspector at Street , my job was to see that the s platforms were always When one train left you had to put the other train in to get the shunters to shunt another train into the empty platform you see , for the next the next shunt and that and if a train came in from Carstairs you see , you seen that the pilot and phoned the signalman , let the pilot into number five dock . |
| 28 | You went in to get the package while Ibrahim went on to the river — was that it ? ’ |
| 29 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 30 | So to get the point of this so sometimes servants are the butt of humour in the play |