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 . |