Example sentences of "get [pron] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald Hardie , the Scottish director of the IoD , feels the problem stems from the education system , with girls being discouraged from studying the subjects that would get them on to the business ladder . |
| 2 | Once the wind drops I 'll get you over to the mainland and get an X-ray done at St Mary 's . ’ |
| 3 | " Then we 'll get you down to the road . |
| 4 | At Home : A good wash and brush will get you back to the groove |
| 5 | ‘ Let's get you back to the house , ’ he said quickly . |
| 6 | ‘ If I ca n't get her back to the sea , I 'll have to become a farmer , ’ he said . |
| 7 | How do you get it through to the boss ? |
| 8 | I 'll get it back to the place . |
| 9 | If that is allowed you must get it back to the interviewer as soon as possible . |
| 10 | the Lenten 's appeal at the schools that Mrs was supposed to let Miss know so she could get it off to the parents to get the money back so that they bought the scanner . |
| 11 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 12 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by . |