Example sentences of "get at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are contrasted with secondary sources , which are data got at second hand ; i.e. sets of data culled from other people 's original data . |
| 2 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 3 | When we , we using B H C vaccine in eigh er , late seventies , early eighties , erm , that caused problems because we had residues left in the meat , and the French amongst others found it as well , so there were , there were problems there , and the Ministry went over to organo-phos or to organo-phosphorus dips , they were the only alternative that they 'd got at that er , time . |
| 4 | And I said to Dave what 's this then I 've got at one o'clock an hour 's overtime . |
| 5 | Well a comment really , I was sitting browsing at Blackwell 's sale , and they 've got at half price , a beautiful book I was skimming through , with photographs of Victorian fashion , if you 're interested |
| 6 | Is that what he 's got at this |
| 7 | Many people use them to build up a tax-free fund for youngsters which they get at 18 or 21 , although you are restricted to one scheme per person . |
| 8 | I do not think there is any difference of opinion as to its being a general rule that , where any injury is to be compensated by damages , in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured , or who has suffered , in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation or reparation . |
| 9 | The basic you get at that time . |
| 10 | and I says to him that 's one thing you never get at that , that one at Top Shop |
| 11 | Then she delved into an inside pocket and produced a brown paper bag , the sort you get at off licences . |
| 12 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 13 | I do n't like to see people getting at one another , picking at one another , sledging one another , ’ Richardson said . |
| 14 | erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war . |
| 15 | The Mamur Zapt was in charge of law and order in Cairo and that meant keeping the city quiet and stopping them all from getting at each other 's throats . |
| 16 | Er it is then an opportunity of getting at five five individuals and giving them a a pretty thorough going over and and a lot of encouragement . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ It 's just another way of getting at female employees . ’ |
| 18 | And you actually managed to get all that information without Morrison getting at all suspicious ? ’ |
| 19 | Getting at these was dealt with in Part 2 . |
| 20 | The survey people stressed the importance of neutrality and objectivity in research , and the participant observation enthusiasts argued that the essential thing about social life is what it means to those involved , and that the only valid way of getting at these meanings is to participate in the lives of those who shared them . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 22 | Might even get at that one there . |
| 23 | We 'll never gon na get at that rate . |
| 24 | I 've got better odds than I 'd get at Russian roulette — twenty to one , at least . |
| 25 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 26 | erm may I suggest Mr if your Lordship would care to sit at ten o'clock and then think he 'll get at eleven fifteen , but really in |
| 27 | Yeah you could n't sort of get at any where near him to start with . |
| 28 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 29 | Maybe now I can get at this business of amor as of Ezra , and get at it right . |
| 30 | So how and when can you get at this money ? |