Example sentences of "[verb] get [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | say got to the front door |
| 2 | The joints between plastic gutters can leak too — usually because dirt or grit has got between the gutter and the seal or because the seal itself has perished . |
| 3 | ( Columbia Tristar , 15 , rental only ) Stanley & Iris Once one has got over the novelty of seeing Jane Fonda and Robert de Niro don blue collars to play working-class lost souls , Martin Ritt 's adaptation of the novel Union Street ( set on Teeside ) is fairly absorbing . |
| 4 | Albie has become a celebrity in Speke , and now he has got over the shock I think he is actually enjoying the limelight . |
| 5 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 6 | But then , as far as I am concerned , the Archbishop is the nearest thing the Church of England has got to a superstar . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole thing has got to a ludicrous stage when that is used as a stick to beat me . ’ |
| 8 | If it has got to the length of requiring surgery , then certainly surgery should not be delayed . |
| 9 | IBM has got to the point where it has baptised the concept of the RS/6000 Cluster Service Offering , but a twist in DEC 's plan is to enable alien workstations to be included in the cluster — according to Electronic News , it conceives of creating clusters of Alpha-based workstations within one to two years and then to move on to embracing alien machines , with the benefit that stations could be used as stand-alone units when no parallel work was running . |
| 10 | I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up . |
| 11 | It has got to the stage where it would be cheaper for stockholding booksellers themselves to buy the books from these cheaper sources — they 'd get a better margin than ordering them from the publisher . |
| 12 | erm I think the general pressure on tropical governments now from the environmental lobby has got to the point where they are n't they 're beginning to realise the problems . |
| 13 | Does it surprise you that the government seemingly has got into a rather insensitive and delicate position over this ? |
| 14 | That doctrine of notice has got into the Common Law in one or two places , e.g. in the law about the sale of goods in market overt , and in the law of negotiable instruments ; but , broadly speaking , whenever you have got rights which depend upon notice , you may be pretty sure that you are in the sphere of Equity . |
| 15 | And it is a good thing that someone sensible should be doing so for the subject has got into the hands of theorists of the most tiresome sort . |
| 16 | The press , however , is baying for blood , far preferring the notion that someone within the Mint has got into the habit of dashing off two notes where one will do . |
| 17 | So even M and S has got into the fashions market . |
| 18 | This means either that air has got into the system or that corrosion is causing hydrogen gas to collect . |
| 19 | Leaks can happen because dirt or grit has got into the valve or because the valve washer is worn . |
| 20 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 21 | The 1990 White Paper requires the government to publish an annual progress report showing how far it has got with the ‘ greening ’ of its policies and actions . |
| 22 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 23 | Could anybody ring and tell us what she has got on the washing line . |
| 24 | He has got through a dozen of them over the years and generations of cricketers have passed by . |
| 25 | The fruit of the little enlivening the quaint old northern town has got through the Exhibition may be seen by-and-bye . |
| 26 | Once a beginner has got past the teething part of theory , his mind must be concentrated on the clubhead . |
| 27 | However , describing it is as far as the organisation has got for the moment , though OSF says members are screaming for a bridge that spans all GUI environments . |
| 28 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 29 | Going behind the doors that you 're not allowed to go through , go through and seeing what the Sainsbury is , has got behind the doors , the magical doors . |
| 30 | Maybe the specific association behind each of these works , generally commissioned from Arnold for particular events or celebrations , has got in the way of their wider circulation . |