Example sentences of "they [verb] get [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of our discussion in Chapter 2 , it could be argued that in so doing they failed to get to the root of the problem . |
| 2 | They want to get through the canal in the one day . |
| 3 | He says they want to get into the market and this is the only way and it will benefit the customer . |
| 4 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 5 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 6 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 7 | They manage to get inside the mind of a man who , despite being brutal , had effortless success with a string of women . |
| 8 | They were not intellectually fruitful , these little exchanges , but they served to get across the message that a good soldier should be smart , disciplined to the point of pain , unquestioning in the face of authority and preferably dead . |
| 9 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 10 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 11 | You can have it , they 're talking about the farm that they 've got at the School |
| 12 | and you mean to tell me with all that equipment the machine that they 've got at the college , you could n't get it done there ? |
| 13 | That 's National Savings , and to my mind the only good issue they 've got at the moment , and er once you get with index-linked certificates , they were originally the granny bonds that were launched er in the early er late seventies , early eighties . |
| 14 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 15 | Helmut Kohl 's calls to brief Major on the British economy are doubtless answered by a builder screaming at the German Chancellor to speak English , or ordering him to get off the line so they can deal with the other jobs they 've got on the go . |
| 16 | And you know that may hamper you in really reaching a decision about erm the real nature of the relationship they 've got with the child . |
| 17 | But it , think of things like that , because they , they 've got to the stage where they can actually enjoy that . |
| 18 | I think they 've got off the ground and they 've shown a lot of initiative . |
| 19 | When they 've got over the shock , most are mainly concerned for their daughters ' welfare , and give them a lot of support , as illustrated many times in the accounts that follow . |
| 20 | Well there 's a lot of land there because they 've got opposite the church , that bit of land . |
| 21 | And displacement , how far they 've got from the start line ? |
| 22 | so you 've got ta hold it and get a bracket then whether er the ones they 've got in the back and the one in the front there |
| 23 | One does it , one of the things that eh I do n't know whether it does effect you at all Chris but eh , eh Chris , is , is the fact that eh these here foreign lavatories they 've got around the town , now I 'm dead against these for a number of reasons . |
| 24 | Somehow or other they had to get beneath the certainty and feed the seeds of doubt . |
| 25 | Prudently , they had got into the Jubilee Line train at Finchley Road , in case someone they knew might be on the platform at West Hampstead . |
| 26 | It could have been a dire result if they had got into the surf . |
| 27 | The economic recession and the sharp rise in unemployment of that year forced the Conservative government to change its policies before they had got off the ground . |
| 28 | Last week it despatched entry forms for the Scottish Marketing Awards to its members , encouraging them to show how they had got to the top of the class . |
| 29 | They have got to the stage having gone through the consultation , having done the assessments , looked at the alternatives , have declared that as their preferred route which er the next stage would then be as I say , the planning process . |
| 30 | The problem , in those who hyperventilate , is that they have got into the habit of breathing faster all the time . |