Example sentences of "to get [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They felt this was important in helping them to get through the difficulties associated with unemployment . |
| 3 | I was too big a man to get through the caves , but I listened hard and was sure I heard something . |
| 4 | The new tactic means their tanks would not only be hard to hit , but British and American tanks would find it virtually impossible to get through the minefields . |
| 5 | From her he seemed to draw sufficient strength to get through the days until the simple funeral was over . |
| 6 | I do n't know how I 'm going to get through the days . |
| 7 | He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall take Rosie or Violet and try to get through the drifts and reach Aumery Park Farm . ’ |
| 9 | TENNIS heart-throb Andre Agassi smashed his way into the last 16 in the US Open yesterday — and won a kiss from movie star Barbra Streisand ( inset ) who must have pulled some special strokes to get past the minders at New York 's Flushing Meadow . |
| 10 | With this in mind , he had devised more security measures to thwart any would-be intruder that managed to get past the guards . |
| 11 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 12 | First , it has to get past the gatekeepers , the publishers and the journal editors , the referees and reviewers . |
| 13 | we had to run to get a worm , but we erm we erm you had to get past the foxes without them touching you , if you touch them you wo n't be able to get a worm |
| 14 | so much for international success … what about Swindon … he has n't scored for them in the league yet … but would give anything … and everything to get amongst the goals |
| 15 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 16 | What I have tried to do in this chapter is to suggest a way of looking at towns as though they were a special kind of landscape — as indeed they are — to get behind the guide-books and the individual buildings to the secret history of these places : to draw attention to what I think are some of the significant bits of urban landscape that point the way into this secret history . |
| 17 | The company which owns the worldwide franchise of the name and trademark is planning an expansion phase — in the best possible taste , of course — and is hoping to get into the pockets of a few well-heeled outside investors . |
| 18 | He also loved jazz though it was often difficult for him to get into the clubs because when he started he was only 15 . |
| 19 | His willingness to get into the crowds earned points . |
| 20 | ‘ There is no normal way to get into the arms trade ’ , says Mohammed . |
| 21 | US West Inc 's plans to get into the fun-and-games end of the telecommunications business with Time Warner Inc has received a mixed review from the junior among the credit rating agencies , Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co of Chicago , which placed the securities of US West Inc , US West Capital Funding and US West Financial Services on rating watch . |
| 22 | In the meanwhile , do you think you could persuade a few more salmon to get into the rivers around your neck of the woods by the time next season opens ? |
| 23 | Jim Davidson sent six bottles of champagne with a card saying , ‘ What a way to get into the papers , ’ and one evening I received the largest basket of poinsettias I 've ever seen , totally stunning , with a card saying , ‘ Thinking of you — lots of love , Elton . ’ |
| 24 | Trust Spittals not to miss a chance to get into the papers , thought Dexter with a snort . |
| 25 | He was pretty confident about his ability to get into the rooms in the first place , Loretta noted . |
| 26 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 27 | I met her in Cambridge and she introduced me to her new boyfriend who was a Dutchman called Erik Hazelhoff-Roelfzema , I was most impressed with this keen and very handsome young man , but I knew nothing whatsoever about him save that he was anxious to get into the Pathhnders . |
| 28 | Despite high fences and danger warning signs , children managed to get into the remains of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester and use it as an adventure playground . |
| 29 | Something to account for her needing to get into the Workshops , but something that did not give away the Beastline people 's plans to attack Tara ? |
| 30 | But at least he is here , she thought , and wondered if she would really have tried to get into the Workshops by herself if she had had to . |