Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] get [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 2 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 3 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 4 | He looks not like a peasant from Saratov , but a Civil Servant Grade 5 who has just got off the train from Greenwich . |
| 5 | Tony Garnett produces for Temple in California , and it has to be as far as he has ever got from the Ken Loach films with which he was associated before going to America . |
| 6 | Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands ! |
| 7 | Actually the idea that that 's what happened has probably got round the parents already . |
| 8 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 9 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 10 | Sybil still has n't got over the shock — and do n't you go insulting my family . |
| 11 | He has n't got over the shock yet . |
| 12 | He has n't got over the shock yet . |
| 13 | He paused , then said : ‘ What has n't got in the papers is another case like it . |
| 14 | In the process , job evaluation could terminally undermine clinical grading , making a new system virtually redundant before it has even got off the ground . |
| 15 | He has even got in the habit of joining in , stumbling after me ( not that I 'm very dazzling ) like a giraffe . |
| 16 | Blisters are a sign that moisture has either got below the felt or that the felt was laid on a damp surface . |
| 17 | When the band split up in 1985 Sting started out on a solo career which has seen hits like Spread A Little Happiness and If You Love Somebody , but he has yet to get near the success , in the singles chart at least , of one of the biggest-selling pop groups in history . |
| 18 | Technology has meantime got round the IBM problem by going to its OEM customers such as Bull HN Information Systems , which supplies RS/6000s . |
| 19 | I tell you oh dear , I do n't mind and er get a couple of hours , but er , it does eventually get to the middle |
| 20 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 21 | He does not get at the pain ‘ outwardly ’ ( by the use of hands , eyes , and so on ) , but ‘ inwardly ’ . |
| 22 | He said that dichloromethane , for instance , has a very short atmospheric lifetime , so it does not get into the stratosphere and cause the same problems as CFCs , carbon tetrachloride or 1,1,1-trichloroethane . |
| 23 | This needs to be glued all around the edge of the plate to form a tight seal so that gravel does not get under the plate . |
| 24 | Rain does not get near the walls , there is not enough rotting animal and vegetable matter , and the last people have always used the garden as a rubbish heap . |
| 25 | Wind shielding : the burner design gives the flame good protection and the case lid 's stiff hinges allow it to be propped upright giving some extra protection ( assuming the pot does not get in the way ) . |
| 26 | But this does not get in the way of the conclusion that |
| 27 | Taking into account need for doctors ' services does not get round the problem that ‘ many of those with restricted activity may not visit a G.P. whereas others may visit a G.P. for reasons other than restricted activity . ’ |
| 28 | Any character who does n't get to the top of the hill before the forest does is sucked into the trees , lost forever as one of the damned souls trapped in the translucent trunks . |
| 29 | He does n't get on the table ! |
| 30 | Also place in the aquarium were two small terracotta flower pots and a couple of shallow terracotta dishes for feeding purposes ( food place in the dishes if not eaten is easily removed and does n't get into the substrate and rot in there ) . |