Example sentences of "to get [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |
| 2 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 3 | The poor man was here to get over a bereavement . |
| 4 | It is tuition for her and helps her to get over a lot of barriers about performing live in front of demanding and sometimes difficult audiences . |
| 5 | ‘ Whereas I would play twice over a weekend , it now takes me until Tuesday to get over a match . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 7 | To get off a train with a total stranger … |
| 8 | " Now that he wo n't have Ma to talk to , and there 's no Mr Blake to get up a subscription if he goes down , I 'd say he might lose heart altogether . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll just have to get up a bit earlier , that 's all . ’ |
| 10 | HOW TO GET UP A HEAD OF ESTEEM . |
| 11 | Michael Brown , president of Ilkley and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce in 1986 , told me it was difficult nowadays to get up a trade team as the number of small local traders has declined . |
| 12 | Well so you 've got to get up a ladder to get at it . |
| 13 | I might go for a stroll to get up an appetite — the exercise 'll do me good . ’ |
| 14 | Well if the weather breaks a bit now , get a bit of sun , be able to get out a bit , with a bit of luck |
| 15 | She could scarcely breathe , let alone struggle , but when she heard the sound of someone in the undergrowth she knew it was Travis and tried to get out a warning . |
| 16 | She says the worst thing she can remember was the outside loo and having to get out a lantern if you wanted to go in the night and go out there with all the cobwebs and strange shadows . |
| 17 | She came up once and tried to get out a cry for help to the others standing there , but the laughing gripped her lungs and they thought she was fooling . |
| 18 | World snooker champion , Steven Hendry has paid out ten thousand pounds to get back a cue stolen from him . |
| 19 | One of the issues that has inexplicably failed to get even a whisper of an airing in the campaign wars of words is whether a graphical interface is the preferred environment for a large proportion of desktop users . |
| 20 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 21 | That 's right , cos it 'll be an hour , well to get there an hour before anyway wo n't we for the ferry ? |
| 22 | But , with a little guidance , it 's possible to get quite a lot of information about the contents and the nutritional value of the food inside . |
| 23 | The government should be able to get quite a lot of the new indirect tax money it is counting on . |
| 24 | But I 'm able to get quite a lot of information and I 'm saying this because you too can get it . |
| 25 | They have them at St Ermin 's , of course , and I know Ossie Thames used to get quite a lot of office workers when he had them at St Luke 's . |
| 26 | Yes bear in mind that that of course , that you 're going to get quite a lot of adult audience going through it as well as kids of course . |
| 27 | It does mean that you will have to get either a converter , a lead with a socket of one type and a plug of the other type , or you will need a Y connector. , a socket connected to two plugs . |
| 28 | Presumably for keeping Speed quiet , whilst managing to get forward a couple of times with Rijkaard-like timing . |