Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 2 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 3 | He tried to get into the wrong car-park and was , inevitably , confronted by a Lord 's gateman who succeeded in making far from happy . |
| 4 | Women who tried to get into the car park without a pass this morning were allowed through the barrier , but council officials warned them that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they try again tomorrow . |
| 5 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 6 | he tried to get into the house Rhys were |
| 7 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 8 | Molly raised her voice slightly as though speaking to a foreigner and tried to get to the heart of the matter . |
| 9 | The two prisoners , in their yellow raincoats , tried to get to the door , but the men in white knocked them to the floor and handcuffed their hands behind their backs . |
| 10 | ‘ The fool tried to get to the horse . |
| 11 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 12 | no where we went was the erm well where we went first was the Dunkirk , did n't like what we hear in there , so we went from the Dunkirk and tried to get in the erm Smithfield hotel , we were unable to do that |
| 13 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 14 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 15 | The trouble was that the paper never seemed to get off the ground , which was typical of the Big Flame and ‘ Beyond the Fragments ’ approach . |
| 16 | The occasion seemed to get to the Aussies then , and this time there will be a 78,000 full house to worry them . |
| 17 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 18 | You never guess what I did n't , forgot to get at the shop . |
| 19 | They were not intellectually fruitful , these little exchanges , but they served to get across the message that a good soldier should be smart , disciplined to the point of pain , unquestioning in the face of authority and preferably dead . |
| 20 | As kite rallies began to get into the full swing of a tightly packed annual diary of events from the early 1980s , so a new trend developed . |
| 21 | Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was . |
| 22 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 23 | After which , I decided to get into the leather producing industry rather than the purely merchanting business and I joined as a director of the main board . |
| 24 | Whelan has played in only three North Region events and six pro-ams this year , spending the rest of the time working in his father 's restaurant and glassware gift shop to earn the £1,200 he needed to get to the School . |
| 25 | And then we started to get to the big stuff . |
| 26 | And then other countries started to get on the band-wagon and erm , find their own tunes . |
| 27 | We crossed over the river into Sweden near the Baltic coast at Haparanda ( and suffered the embarrassment of having to be push started to get off the ferry ) and drove on to Lulea where we called a halt because I had promised to say hello to a friend of a friend who lived there . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a social habit that started to get in the way . ’ |
| 29 | As the Merseysiders struggled to get into the match , Beagrie picked up a short corner on the left and let fly with a tremendous swirling drive that ricocheted into the net off the post . |
| 30 | As Sergeant King struggled to get into the car of a passing motorist , Vernage continued his attack , plunging his knife again and again into the policeman . |