Example sentences of "[be] to get [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The champions have to overturn a daunting 3-0 deficit at Elland Road tomorrow night if they are to get past Stuttgart and make it into the European Cup second round . |
| 2 | The Parminter tale was utterly scandalous and she would have to persuade Wilmot to skate around the libel laws if it were to get into print , but she kept these reservations to herself . |
| 3 | We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer . |
| 4 | My top objective is to get on board because I believe she is the best person for the job . |
| 5 | All I want is to get to bed as soon as possible . ’ |
| 6 | At least ten works have already been snapped up at the private view , so my advice is to get to Billingham as soon as you can . |
| 7 | Debt net of cash has been reduced more than 60% from its peak in the third quarter of 1989 and debt net of cash to capital ratio is now 42% compared with a peak 61% in second quarter 1991 ; the company 's goal is to get to 25% or less . |
| 8 | HOW TO PLAY — The object of the game is to get to Number 10 Downing Street at the centre of the board . |
| 9 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 10 | Can you tell me how much it is to get in Elland Road these days , I would also give you petrol money . |
| 11 | My advice to anyone who 's interested is to get in touch soon , because I 've got a feeling next year it will be ‘ standing room only ! ’ — Andrew Mercer |
| 12 | I think myself on that the best thing to do is to get in touch with the local chemist |
| 13 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 14 | Southern Railway kept a mule at Spencer Shops whose sole purpose was to get on board a train on Sunday so that a run could be made from Spencer to Goldsboro . |
| 15 | This accident … it was to get at Jack , right ? |
| 16 | Rosie 's one ambition was to get to America , and the easiest way was to marry a Yank and become a GI bride . |
| 17 | The next stage was to get to Manston . |
| 18 | The plan was to get through postgrad. school , get a part-time lecturer 's job , a studio in Wapping and become a Real Artist . |
| 19 | That brings me onto another point which is made in the panel 's submission that people have talked all the time about the limits of traffic management on the A sixty one as if the objective of traffic management was to get through Harrogate quicker . |
| 20 | We found that the target was covered by five-eighths cloud which meant that out only choice was to get below cloud to comb the target . |
| 21 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |