Example sentences of "to get [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days it is imperative — if you want success , anyway — to be able to get about the field and give and take a pass nearly as well as a back . |
| 2 | For example , the cost of ramps and other modifications to enable a paraplegic to get about the house may even reduce the capital value of the house . |
| 3 | The psycho-therapist , social worker or social reformer , concerned only with his own clients and their grievance against society , perhaps takes a view comparable to the private citizen of Venice who concerns himself only with the safety of his own dwelling and his own ability to get about the city . |
| 4 | The more those kids were deprived and maltreated , the more motivated they would be to get aboard the enterprise culture and start creating wealth . |
| 5 | One dog may then try to get between the herd and the straggler , and try to drive it towards the rest of the pack . |
| 6 | It would not have been possible for the Government of 1945-51 to get through the legislation if they had faced the delaying tactics that have characterised the progress of Bills in the past 11 to 12 years . |
| 7 | She is imprisoned within massive earthen walls from which she can never escape for her body is far too big to get through the passages that lead to it . |
| 8 | Consumption of drinks and drugs go up : alcohol consumption can increase — maybe to a second scotch before dinner , maybe to two Special Brews to get through the afternoon and a bottle of wine every evening ; smoking can increase , as can the consumption of tea and coffee — even though these are physical stimulants ( and can therefore mimic anxiety ) rather than relaxants . |
| 9 | At lunchtime the aid started going off and I suddenly realised that I was n't going to get through the afternoon — ’ |
| 10 | Any weeds that are able to get through the cover are knocked over , but the important purposes for keeping the mulch jostled about are air penetration and the prevention of rain run-off from a packed surface . |
| 11 | ‘ David did very , very well to get through the Turkey game the way he did and if you were not aware that he had this problem with his knee , you would n't have known it was there . |
| 12 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 13 | She would have to be an H-M exec to get through the DeLorean 's brain , and unseal the system . |
| 14 | The Hurricanes had to be shorn of their wings to get through the tunnel but the Fulmars went through with wings folded . |
| 15 | ‘ Will they take long to get through the tunnel ? ’ asked Peter . |
| 16 | All I have to do is to get through the skin of stones and then I shall be in soft earth ( I imagine ) . |
| 17 | Now she was winding down another dead shift at the Decatur House bar , four customers on the dregs , drinking a little herself to get through the night . |
| 18 | Then she would n't be sitting here wondering how on earth they were going to get through the night . |
| 19 | I found Jo in the hall trying to get through the scrum of people to the kitchen . |
| 20 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 21 | Rain had to squeeze past a half-full packing case to get through the passage to the sitting room and then there were stacks of books on the floor . |
| 22 | You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er |
| 23 | In this way you will be sure to get through the work load . |
| 24 | The agents complained fiercely at having to stand twelve hours on Whitehall 's pavements in pouring November rain , clutching maps and papers , waiting to be called ; but there was no other way to get through the work . |
| 25 | The black cloud was right above them now and some of the congregation had begun to stir uneasily in expectation of the downpour , wondering whether the Padre would manage to get through the service before it fell . |
| 26 | I do n't know how people are going to get through the winter . |
| 27 | They felt this was important in helping them to get through the difficulties associated with unemployment . |
| 28 | It 's impossible to get through the jungle to Saigon from here . " |
| 29 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 30 | He then forced himself to get through the rest of the day without writing , so that the well would have replenished its juice by the time he took up his pencil again the next daybreak . |