Example sentences of "a [noun] to get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got s do n't go yet , we 've still got a bit to get through . |
| 2 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 3 | He smiled as if he knew that had been a struggle to get out but he did n't make it more difficult for her . |
| 4 | But you have to have a fight to get in ! |
| 5 | Why should there be a surface to get beneath , a skin to get under ? |
| 6 | Rent a jeep to get out onto small tracks which uncover some beautiful waterfalls and rock formations . |
| 7 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 8 | We need to make a boat to get off . |
| 9 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 10 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 11 | You will need a car to get about . |
| 12 | Erm , if you want to know how a advisers are paid , erm you know then I er would explain that under the terms and conditions of er 's business , we 're actually paid erm a salary by , and er I obviou obviously get er you know a car to get about in etcetera , but the , the , when we place business er the er commissions that we get , generate are paid to , they go down to head office in Bournemouth , they 're then used to give us our er our you know returns , advances and what have you . |
| 13 | The brave eight-year-old will mix with her classmates again at Basildon , Essex , in a bid to get over her ordeal . |
| 14 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 15 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 16 | Michael Gough , my editor , works for me in New York and he said he went to get a key to get back in after they had closed and they said why and he said because I think that I will be back later than your gate is locked . |
| 17 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 18 | And Mrs Metcalfe , of Ascot View , in Redhall , Darlington , said the burglars must have used a key to get in . |
| 19 | These people are not ‘ different ’ — they are the same as you and I , except that they have lost the ability to use their legs and have to rely on a wheelchair to get about . |
| 20 | Taking anti-depressants to get you over a hump like this makes the same sort of sense as using a crutch to get around on while a broken leg heals . |
| 21 | A determination to get back what had been taken from them . |
| 22 | ‘ Garvey was a fool to get down , ’ he muttered . |
| 23 | of when you 've got to be a rotter to get on but I 'm afraid that 's how it 's gon na be |
| 24 | High gates and fences at the back of your home will make it difficult for a burglar to get in and slip away unnoticed . |
| 25 | And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in . |
| 26 | Reaching her room , she wanted with all her heart to leave Parkwood , and even made a move to get out her overnight bag . |
| 27 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 28 | He felt a need to get out of London , Eric Verrico was keen to see Paris and the £40 Minton brought with him fuelled the ‘ larks ’ all four now had . |
| 29 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 30 | then you 've got more room to get round If you sit glued to the pavement it 's a hell of a job to get round |