Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] get [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And right now the term competitiveness is used to basically get by safety regulations and anything else concerning safety .
2 Oh So Risky , who ran away with the Triumph Hurdle — the crown for four-year-olds — at the 1991 Festival , came to the final flight in last year 's Champion Hurdle with the race apparently won , and Sheikh Mohammed 's Royal Gait had to bash two others aside to finally get to David Elsworth 's five-year-old in a photo finish .
3 Not an obsession , but I do n't want to ever get like that again .
4 Its just a pity there s not a better song to really get at the SCUM supporters , that does nt perhaps offend the older generation who WERE alive at the time .
5 And , er , the other problem with it is , you really have to know quite a lot about history , or biography to really to really get into .
6 I wanted to be a violinist — that was my real ambition — but I was too anxious to really get to grips with the instrument .
7 It took a year to really get to grips with the language and then Clare moved from Zagreb to the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik .
8 The cost saving in the preventative work , er , fall falls later on in the system , and that might not even accrue back to local government , and that 's the problem and I think if there was some specific erm , government grants that enabled local authorities to really get to grips with the preventative elements and could should that , that reduced overall government spending on the other end , on the impact end , I mean , I think we would be , we would be sort of making very much headway , but there does n't seem to be that specific initiative at this particular stage .
9 You 've got to really get to the right of that red , so can rush it down to the , left of that hoop with the red paint on it .
10 To really get in the swing of things we celebrated in the evening with a Caribbean dinner followed by a rum punch party .
11 If you show them you 're not scared to really get in there you make a lot of friends .
12 Several Test players have told Mirror Sport they want to publicly get behind their gutsy team-mate , but fear Big Brother is watching closely and ready to get tough if anyone steps out of line .
13 I mean I ca n't see the government allowing a building society to actually get into erm er a case of insolvency , I think it , the , the , I think the Building Society Association would force a merger , but it may be on very poor terms or er you know , whatever .
14 But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go
15 But that er to actually get to the stage where every health care worker 's H I V status or every patients ’ is made public knowledge is clearly not in anybody 's interest .
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