Example sentences of "to get [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 2 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 3 | Through the Princes ' Trust in the month we actually give grants to something like twenty people , just to get them off the street , because there was nowhere else they could turn to . |
| 4 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
| 5 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 6 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 7 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 8 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 9 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 10 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 11 | He gained his school colours for rugger and was unlucky not to get them for the Field Game and the Wall Game — another game confined to Eton . |
| 12 | I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ? |
| 13 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 14 | Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages . |
| 15 | To get them through the Christmas crisis , staff in London were instructed to send down a variety of commercial patterns and magazines which Laura adapted herself . |
| 16 | Well , we 're still trying to get them through the Police Authority but we are making provision through this budget if we do n't , yeah |
| 17 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
| 18 | There were always hundreds of students asking their foreign teachers for this ‘ favour ’ to get them over the first hurdle of the going abroad process . |
| 19 | There 's people out there with stories to tell , and we 've got to get them into the bookshops , get something different on the shelves . |
| 20 | CHILDREN at a comprehensive school have been issued with ‘ potty passes ’ — to get them into the toilets . |
| 21 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 22 | Are we gon na be able to get them into the right place ? |
| 23 | Now of course with wardrobes that are three foot wide it 's an impossibility to get them up the stairs . |
| 24 | Some do , at first , to get them in the mood . |
| 25 | To further complicate matters , it 's sometimes necessary to move blocks to a safe place first , but again taking care to get them in the correct sequence for later use . |
| 26 | Will you be able to get them in the morning ? ’ |
| 27 | you 're meant to get them in the bin not out of the bin . |
| 28 | We need to get them in the league . |
| 29 | We used to get them by the , twenty at a time all sorts of , because people just absolutely loved |
| 30 | Well , okay , now it it may be that one of the things that that relates to again is the meeting that we talked about , erm and the need to get them around the table and begin to talk about those sort of things . |