Example sentences of "[prep] get at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 2 | Do we have any ‘ instrument ’ or means of getting at the truth ? |
| 3 | I saw his words as a way of getting at the Countess . |
| 4 | There is no such deductive way of getting at the skill description . |
| 5 | One way of getting at the varieties of relationship in these poems is to group them , not too dogmatically , into poems where the I dominates , and those where the Thou carries more weight . |
| 6 | Even worse , some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts . |
| 7 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 8 | Another way of getting at the question of disciplinary spaces is to ask about the boundaries of the discipline . |
| 9 | Questions about the ‘ core ’ and ‘ boundary ’ of a discipline imply a spatial or territorial metaphor ; but another way of getting at the nature of disciplines is to explore their internal structure . |
| 10 | Concealment for the purpose of getting at the truth received encouragement from the courts in their refusal . |
| 11 | As the DEA was plainly out to get him , and had blocked all access to the files he needed to clear himself , the only avenue open to him was to work with Pan Am , in the common interest of getting at the truth , using his training and experience to piece together the best defence he could . |
| 12 | Like getting at the prostate , for instance . |
| 13 | For instance , a particular user ID could be prohibited from getting at the disk drives or the network , or from using the PC at all during certain hours . |
| 14 | How much money they 're gon na have and how much presents you 're gon na get at the wedding and how many guests you 're gon na get . |