Example sentences of "to get [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome , riding fast and wearing out horses on the way . |
2 | General Franco used the army to get himself to power , then kicked it away . |
3 | The trouble and expense he had gone to get himself on board looked increasingly ominous , I thought . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She 's not the first servant to get herself into trouble and she wo n't be the last . |
6 | Driving to the office , she strove to get herself under control once more . |
7 | MILLWALL 's efforts to get themselves on television succeeded earlier this season when their game against Liverpool made The Match . |
8 | Some actors manage to get themselves into trouble by picking the wrong people to slug it out with — like the police ! |
9 | The more we keep them down , the less of them there 'll be to get themselves into trouble . ’ |
10 | — to get myself to Florence . |
11 | IT 'S the one big incentive to get yourself into shape that holiday abroad by the sea . |
12 | You have been known to get yourself into scrapes . ’ |