Example sentences of "to get [pn reflx] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 General Franco used the army to get himself to power , then kicked it away .
2 The trouble and expense he had gone to get himself on board looked increasingly ominous , I thought .
3 One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for .
4 She 's not the first servant to get herself into trouble and she wo n't be the last .
5 Driving to the office , she strove to get herself under control once more .
6 MILLWALL 's efforts to get themselves on television succeeded earlier this season when their game against Liverpool made The Match .
7 Some actors manage to get themselves into trouble by picking the wrong people to slug it out with — like the police !
8 The more we keep them down , the less of them there 'll be to get themselves into trouble . ’
9 IT 'S the one big incentive to get yourself into shape that holiday abroad by the sea .
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