Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried once or twice to get him to the big hills , or to the Dolomites , but he sees no reason to waste time that could be spent in Norway or Greenland . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the fault of C1 that you do n't have today or tomorrow to get straight . |
| 3 | We manhandled the formwork into position , digging out here and there to get it level in both directions . |
| 4 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 5 | And he said he was prepared to say it again and again to get the message across . |