Example sentences of "[vb pp] to get [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footholds had been made to get to books above head height but if you wanted one further up then you needed a rope , helmet and the special climbing boots to help you reach it . |
| 2 | I 've spoken to several of the barmen , explaining our dilemma , and elicited a promise that if a couple answering to the description of Svend and your sister put in an appearance and are conversing in English the man shall be discreetly asked if he is Svend Eriksen and , if so , requested to get in touch with me . |
| 3 | Deciding who will join their ranks is just one of the questions the cooperative members have had to get to grips with ; learning self-management has not always been easy . |
| 4 | Even more dramatically , Darren Coulbourn , the white boy from Burnage High School who murdered Ahmed Iqbal Ullah and triumphantly proclaimed ‘ I 've killed a Paki ’ , was also known to have collaborated with an Asian boy in burning down the art block and ‘ used to get into trouble ’ at school ( as the Burnage Report puts it ) in the company of an Afro-Caribbean boy . |
| 5 | And he said we have got to get on top of there and clean all the ovens . |
| 6 | I ca n't go back to bed , because I 've got to get to London . |
| 7 | I 've got to get to London . ’ |
| 8 | Well I 've got to get to King 's Lynn on Saturday |
| 9 | We 've got to get to school . |
| 10 | So you really have got to get to grips with it ! |
| 11 | Yes a tricky issue but I think we 've got to get to grips with it |
| 12 | What have they got to get from bowls to there |
| 13 | Of course , Susan thought , the marshal had probably been inspired to get into Enforcement by dreaming Vanessa Vail — by being Vanessa Vail — at an impressionable age . |
| 14 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |
| 15 | Has n't hurried to get in touch , has he ? |
| 16 | He 'd been asked to get in touch with Mike for advice . |
| 17 | In the last decade at Cardinal Newman School , and I am sure any comprehensive school head could give a similar figure , we must have had six or seven very talented youngsters who got grade As/Bs at ‘ A ’ level have tried to get into medicine and only a small number have got in . |
| 18 | Four years we 've been apart , and you 've never once tried to get in touch with me . |
| 19 | Have you tried to get in touch with the doctor since the letter arrived ? |
| 20 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 21 | The Banbury company is one of the first amateur groups to be allowed to get to grips with it . |
| 22 | And you probably would n't have been allowed to get near part of it . |
| 23 | Watchers were then encouraged to get in touch with her via her publishers , after which they received a personalised mailshot . |
| 24 | You 're packed with vim , vigour and vitality tomorrow and determined to get in shape to either win the love of your life or just enjoy feeling as fit as a fiddle . |
| 25 | I preface my statement by saying ‘ look at what we 've beaten to get to second ? ’ . |
| 26 | The survivors group meet in Farnham and anyone who identifies with them is urged to get in touch . |
| 27 | And and er Katie was off the day before with something and just managed to get to school that day . |
| 28 | She thought of three couples , friends , who had managed to get to Israel after a bitter struggle . |
| 29 | The day starts with the great American breakfast , which , if you have n't managed to get as part of your hotel deal , should be eaten in a local coffee shop or diner and will set you back $3-$4 for eggs , bacon , toast and unlimited coffee . |
| 30 | The Clarets only once managed to get past Ford during a frenzied 90 minutes in which Burnley bombarded the Seasiders ' goal . |