Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Last year I set an agenda which said that ’ we needed eighteen months to get in shape for the eventual economic upturn ’ . |
| 5 | We 'll carry on what we 're doing without having to write pop songs to get to Number One . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Attempts in a couple of cases by parents to get in touch after years of no interest were not welcomed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Recently , I had cause to telephone the factory in pursuit of another non-standard modification — the sort of thing which can be a real pain when you have two new model lines to get into production . |
| 16 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of Sun Microsystems Inc WABI binary interface for Windows applications under Unix , and providing the MS-DOS and Windows emulator on most other vendors ' Unix machines , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 17 | In addition to being Microsoft Corp 's front-line defence against the forces of WABI and being the MS-DOS/Windows emulator on practically everyone else 's box , Insignia last week became one of only 12 companies to get on Apple Computer Inc 's ‘ Inside Track ’ programme . |
| 18 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 19 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 20 | It took 21 days to get to Basra , through the Suez Canal , down the Red Sea ( that was not ) sharp left at Aden and up the Persian Gulf . |
| 21 | Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South . |
| 22 | Even in the 1780s travel was difficult and on foot or by horse — it took at least four days to get from Edinburgh to London . |
| 23 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 24 | The Bill took four years to get through Parliament , during which time Owen was subjected to abuse by those who opposed it , and on his deathbed in 1858 , a clergyman who came ( needlessly ) to offer him the consolations of religion asked him if he regretted having wasted his life in fruitless efforts ! |
| 25 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 26 | There was by now a continual branching off of sub-orders , and more easily acquired food enabled basic structure changes to get under way . |
| 27 | A waiver scheme allows individual families to get in touch with me and to tell me if the levying of the charge will erm will mean particular financial hardship for them , and we 've had experience of this . |
| 28 | and said if they ever had any problems to get in touch . |
| 29 | We can try all sorts of techniques to get in touch with the hinterland of your psyche but my feeling is that , unless you yourself are prepared to voyage there , it will prove impossible to extirpate this negative cathexis . |
| 30 | But there are ways to get to Headingley . ’ |