Example sentences of "to get through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may feel that an idea of this sort is what will give you the most charge to get through the sixty , seventy or eighty thousand words that lie between you and a finished manuscript , let alone the weeks of researching that may be necessary and the dense hours of hard thinking . |
| 2 | ‘ I raised my game just enough to get through the early rounds , ’ he said of his performance . |
| 3 | Nomes slept mainly at night , but needed catnaps to get through the long day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While she had been speaking , the dogs had been struggling to get through the narrow crack of open door . |
| 8 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 9 | When would-be television stars realised that just to get through the first round involved completing a detailed questionnaire their enthusiasm waned somewhat . |
| 10 | We are now in a new championship and we will be starting from scratch on Sunday , ’ states the Newry schoolteacher , ‘ To get through the first round is always a big task . |
| 11 | you 'd need to get through the six thousand flies . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In terms of time that meant ten to twelve hours , depending on how long they took to get through the Romanian frontier . |
| 15 | indeed , the reader will need some professional commitment to get through the monotonous rhythm of the prose , and the technical sophistication of the language . |
| 16 | She says the drive fast to get through the other side . |
| 17 | The England captain , who missed the World Cup match with Sweden in Stockholm last month because of bruised ribs , was happy with his performance against Portsmouth , saying : ‘ I was pleased to get through the 90 minutes . |
| 18 | He drags morosely on the cheroot while we wait for the pretty young newsreader to get through the latest government verbals on the self-pitying unemployed . |
| 19 | Others have failed to get through the treacherous terrain and past the warring factions . |
| 20 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 21 | ‘ Just remember that and we might — just might — be able to get through the next few days without any major problems . ’ |
| 22 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |
| 23 | ‘ I was just wondering how we were going to get through the next few hours . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 27 | 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 . |