Example sentences of "to get [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of these breaks is to give learners a chance to catch up with the plot ; to get them to a point where they understand enough of what has happened to make a reasonable stab at following the gist of the next part . |
| 2 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 3 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 4 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 5 | I thought they were out to get me as a punishment . |
| 6 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 7 | There is nothing that is infinitely irresistible nor that is truly immovable , and as for the idea of a ‘ substance impossible to contain' — that , I decided , was a fiendish invention designed to get me into a muddle as I was sure that such a substance would be a manifest impossibility in practice . |
| 8 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 9 | TWO DAYS LATER , Simon Miles could n't wait to get me behind a wheel . |
| 10 | I do n't want stop trying to get me in a |
| 11 | Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance . |
| 12 | I 'd like to get you on a slow boat to China ? |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps she did it , to get him into a jolly big row . |
| 14 | to get him into a home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then , turning towards his injured companion , ‘ We 've got to get him to a hospital , he 's hurt bad . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 19 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 20 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 21 | ‘ She thinks they 're trying to get her into a home . ’ |
| 22 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 23 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 24 | Lord knows what they say to her , but they must be on at her night and day , to get her into a state where she 's afraid to acknowledge me on the phone ! ’ |
| 25 | Cliff liked to get her in a corner but she liked to sit in the middle . |
| 26 | Suppose you shoot a marble and try to get it across a hump in the ground . |
| 27 | And possibly buy some stuff myself if that 's what necessary to get it over a discount price . |
| 28 | Collins still hopes to push his proposal through committee sessions in time to get it to a plenary session of the full parliament in May . |
| 29 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
| 30 | Try to get it as a ‘ Dr Mumby does it again ’ , not just a patient story . |