Example sentences of "to get [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I raised my game just enough to get through the early rounds , ’ he said of his performance . |
| 2 | Nomes slept mainly at night , but needed catnaps to get through the long day . |
| 3 | By telling his or her own story of drinking and its consequences , the recovering alcoholic is often able to get through the Protective denial system of the sufferer so that the sufferer himself or herself , through personal identification with many elements of that story and with the associated feelings , is gradually able to make his or her own diagnosis . |
| 4 | Because of my lack of work , I had planned to get through the final exam by doing problems in theoretical physics and avoiding questions that required factual knowledge . |
| 5 | One was its desire to find some way not simply to get through the current hard times , but also to protect themselves from the financial ups and downs that make up every economic cycle . |
| 6 | While she had been speaking , the dogs had been struggling to get through the narrow crack of open door . |
| 7 | It 's ironic that a prostitute can get a hotel room by bribing someone but if you 're a respectable woman you are likely to be arrested if you even try to get through the front door . |
| 8 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 9 | In terms of time that meant ten to twelve hours , depending on how long they took to get through the Romanian frontier . |
| 10 | indeed , the reader will need some professional commitment to get through the monotonous rhythm of the prose , and the technical sophistication of the language . |
| 11 | She says the drive fast to get through the other side . |
| 12 | Others have failed to get through the treacherous terrain and past the warring factions . |
| 13 | I think we can help the Soviet populations to get through the coming winter , with , with , food aid , cos I think there gon na have a very bumpy winter er , in the economic sense , and then I think we should also , er , be involved in sorting out the military future of Europe , because it 's Europe as a whole that we 're talking about now . |
| 14 | He told his literary friends that their stories and poems were so awful he did n't know what to say about them or how to get through the scheduled hour . |
| 15 | All she had to do was steel herself to get through the forthcoming weeks until he returned to Hong Kong and she was left to immerse herself in this new job in peace , free of the distraction he constituted . |
| 16 | I slammed the car into first gear to get off the poor thing . |
| 17 | Once the road has been chosen , change management comes to mean knowing how to get off the existing road and onto the new one . |
| 18 | Equip yourself with Another Hong Kong — invaluable for anyone determined to get off the beaten track . |
| 19 | From the noise and excitement of London 's West End to the savage beauty of the Scottish Highlands , Spotlight on Britain enables your students to get off the main roads to explore the many regions that give Britain its unique character . |
| 20 | They belonged to a friend of his who 'd decided to get off the sinking ship quickly . |
| 21 | All the same , most people would have been all too glad to get off the sinking ship . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've dinner to get for the new master and his lady wife . |
| 23 | The quality of the staff , from matrons to cooks , is probably the biggest single factor determining whether a home has a happy atmosphere , and good staff are hard to get for the demanding , albeit rewarding , job of residential care . |
| 24 | HE 'S the heart-throb thousands of schoolgirls want to date — but they 'll have to get past the secret woman in his life first . |
| 25 | Pierre Salinger of ABC News managed to get past the Moroccan security officials . |
| 26 | And they still had to get past the dreadful dragon and the fearsome bird . |
| 27 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 28 | Francois now moved in the general direction of Neidenburg to get behind the Russian rear , despite the fact that Ludendorff had ordered him to march rapidly northeast toward Lahna . |
| 29 | In the meantime one studies them as landscapes , so to speak , simply to heighten one 's pleasure in sight-seeing , to get behind the superficial appearances , to uncover the layers of the palimpsest and to see , for example , a piece of the tenth century in the way a street makes an abrupt turn or does something else unexpected . |
| 30 | If we consider the timber which is sufficiently industrialized to get into the official statistics , the annual world consumption ( not counting fuel ) appears to lie between 800 and 1,000 million tons . |