Example sentences of "to get [pron] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place .
2 You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap .
3 Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages .
4 He said to me , ‘ Willie , just put a club in my hand that 's going to get me on the green .
5 It takes little to get me on the right lines .
6 ‘ She seemed pretty keen to get me on the team , ’ I said .
7 I 'd like to get you on a slow boat to China ?
8 no one 's going to get you on the road , I mean what , what exactly do you drive ?
9 He 's probably counting on family connections to get you on the cheap !
10 ‘ Very soon I 'll be able to get one on the grounds of separation . ’
11 They are crippled by the number of people it takes to get something on the air , whereas in print , I mean it 's still a lot of people if you 're doing a daily paper , but one reporter can write a story and get it on the air , or get it in print .
12 Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was .
13 There 's only one woman in my life , and that is Sister Bernadette of the Nansen Trust , and when we 're through I 'd like you to ask the office to get her on the phone for me .
14 Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound .
15 He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight .
16 He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right !
17 ‘ You 'll have to get it on the loudspeaker when it 's Jazz 's turn to go , ’ Uncle Bean said .
18 I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’
19 The idea took shape some five years ago in the back room of London 's Bull & Gate , and it 's taken until now to get it on the road — for 32 days only .
20 credit approvals now get taken up so quickly because the government does n't let much money borrow erm much money to be borrowed parish councils unfortunately so we need to do it fairly urgently if we 're going to get it on the list , I think the list is already about ten parish councils long .
21 he gets fed up trying to get it on the drive
22 But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen .
23 His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone .
24 I did have a little thought last night that maybe he is not expecting much this year but looking to get us on an even keel for an attempt next year on the title ( with maybe another central defender ) .
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