Example sentences of "[vb base] to get [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you understand that , if you 're actually targeting , you want to get something into a national paper or local paper or something , you need to think at about your particular item you want to get across and think ‘ What sort of angle could actually be useful for that particular outlet ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Look , sonny , it sticks out a mile that you want to get something off your chest but you 're scared to hell what will happen to you if you do . |
| 3 | Now this time we 're here for four weeks so it would probably be that they want to get everybody through this time without anybody escaping the net . |
| 4 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 5 | I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’ |
| 6 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 7 | For example , in France , we have to comply with the French plan comptable , so within a particular row you state the origin of the information , that is , which nominal ledger account you want to get it from — we have a fairly simple account code structure with cost centre account codes — then you say the club name and its account number . |
| 8 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 9 | Hope to get something to you for your birthday , but do n't despair if it does n't come on the day . |
| 10 | ‘ hope to get something by it ? … |
| 11 | ‘ We hope to get it off the ground very shortly and it will be run in conjunction with the Women 's Hospital . ’ |
| 12 | if you happen to get anything in your eye , right the , the thing I found was , if you just close your eye and then open it again , your contact lens would come up with your |
| 13 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 14 | cos you seem to get them from like all over . |
| 15 | Some actors manage to get themselves into trouble by picking the wrong people to slug it out with — like the police ! |
| 16 | Assuming he did , one day , manage to get her into bed , what would happen after she had shimmied off the veil , let the cloak fall around her naked ankles , and then eased her white , sweet-smelling flesh out of the shift to reveal … |
| 17 | What happens if you issue one to , you manage to get it to this department today but ca n't get it to that department 'til tomorrow and . |
| 18 | I 'm perfectly happy to plead a two-year-old 's birthday and then wiggle , flatter and schmooze to get myself off the hook . |
| 19 | This enables us to use a stereotaxic instrument to guide probes like lesion-making electrodes into the brain at known distances in front of , to one side of , and below one of these landmarks and guarantee to get it into a selected subcortical area . |
| 20 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
| 21 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 22 | And this might sound like a facile comment , but should you purchase a MIDI preamp and fancy using a processor as well , remember to get one with MIDI ! |
| 23 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 24 | So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling . |
| 25 | I try to get them off him but am not always successful . |
| 26 | Suppose you shoot a marble and try to get it across a hump in the ground . |
| 27 | Try to get it as a ‘ Dr Mumby does it again ’ , not just a patient story . |
| 28 | Try to get it down me before it burns my tongue ! |
| 29 | Try to get it before Christmas , because I 've got a bit of time off then , and I 'll help you settle in . ’ |
| 30 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |