Example sentences of "in [noun] to get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passage was a ghastly limbo between death and life , a place where men fought and screamed in semi-darkness to get out , splashing up to their crotches in fast-moving water . |
| 2 | Mother I do n't need — the one who brought me up cost a lot in therapy to get over . |
| 3 | I am well aware of the anxiety of people in Plymouth to get on with the whole business of the release and development of Ministry of Defence land . |
| 4 | And now at least he 'd be left in peace to get on with some real work . |
| 5 | If Bernard was busy with flying lessons then she could be left in peace to get on with her work ; once he was back , if he wanted her to go somewhere with him , he would just say ‘ Come on Laura , we 're going , ’ and even if she were in the middle of a meeting , she would put away what she was doing and go . |
| 6 | ‘ It should be very much easier for the elderly , people with pushchairs and those in wheelchairs to get along safely , ’ said Mrs Bosanquet . |
| 7 | They lounged like Romans , taking it in turn to get up , take off the record , snip the wooden needle sharp , wind the machine , place another record on the turntable . |
| 8 | Forfeiting an extra hour in bed to get up and muck out while it is still pitch dark or traipsing through muddy fields on bitterly cold days to break the ice on the water trough can take its toll on the keenest of owners . |
| 9 | From ten o'clock then you come in , you 've got the yard to do , chaff to cut straw to get in hay to get in . |
| 10 | The quest for social pain becomes a preoccupation with my own pain — after all , feminists usually start from their point of identification with other women , and I have my own troubles too , like I 'm also " intentionally homeless ' , a person who 's got out in order to get up . |
| 11 | The effect of these and of the accumulation of abandoned baggage was such that it was , according to Ney 's aide-de-camp , Col Levasseur , ‘ impossible to walk upright in the streets and the infantry were obliged to crawl under the waggons in order to get through . ’ |
| 12 | Can I just clarify , what , what you 're saying is that in a sense there is this overall aim of getting through to socialism but the means of getting there have now changed so that we 've gone from absolute egalitarianism , which is , is an immediate step tow towards socialism you 've gone away from that and the position is now to create a rich peasant economy in order to industrialize , in order to get through to collectivization , I E into socialism . |
| 13 | Joe Clark , the former Prime Minister , once confessed that , faced with the choice of learning of economics or learning French , he chose the latter in order to get on in politics . |
| 14 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 15 | He had been anxious to finish " Little Gidding " partly in order to get on with other jobs , particularly since he had spent so much of the early part of 1941 in seclusion in Shamley Green because of ill health , and these pre-empted his time and concentration . |
| 16 | Larger families represent an unacceptable burden on the state or , worse still , may become enemies of society : " All intelligent Salvadoreans — men or women — ought to realize that in order to get on in life , it is better to have one well-trained child , than 5 or 10 who are a burden , or enemies of the society in which we live . |
| 17 | He was five years older than Minton and watched critically as Minton suppressed his intelligence in order to get on with his Circus which sometimes included boys of adolescent mentality . |
| 18 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 19 | Lack of mobility may mean that older people with disabilities have to incur the cost of private transport in order to get about . |
| 20 | He came into the witness-box today , and I gather it is his normal mode of locomotion , using two elbow crutches in order to get about , and from the reports it is quite plain that the pain is more or less continuous — I do not say without any intermission at all , but there is constant pain in his hip . |
| 21 | This forced him to increase his step length , to raise his leading leg in order to get out of the hole he had created . |
| 22 | In 1984 there was considerable publicity concerning a woman who gouged out her eye and another who slashed her breast in order to get out of her cell for a few minutes . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , her heart sank at the thought of spending an evening with him in his present state of mind , and she was tempted to invent a sore throat in order to get out of it . |
| 24 | For a moment or two she toyed with the idea of making some excuse in order to get out of what would be an embarrassing situation . |
| 25 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 26 | Feeling more put out than embarrassed when the theatre management turned them away , the six complained that they had understood that ‘ you had to be in the nude in order to get in ’ . |
| 27 | If necessary rescheduling should be carried out either to give a new completion date or to increase resources ( or reduce time allocated ) in order to get back on schedule . |
| 28 | When you stood in the Jungle , the house seemed dimensions away , as if , in order to get back indoors , you had to alter the way your mind worked , you had to think your way back in . |
| 29 | Then , on the same scale , how far would you have to walk , in order to get back to Lucy and her kind , the earliest human fossils that unequivocally walked upright ? |
| 30 | And how far would you have to walk , in order to get back to the start of evolution on Earth ? |