Example sentences of "to get this " in BNC.
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| 1 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 2 | Often they 're made to pay for their release and so must steal to get this money , ’ said Mr Santos . |
| 3 | LEP 's Californian rival , the Stanford Linear Collider , has been trying , and failing , to get this result for more than two years . |
| 4 | If the company are unwilling to do this , the accountant , possibly with the assistance of a computer bureau , will generally be happy to get this done . |
| 5 | I can sympathize ; I have often struggled to get this difficult explanation across . |
| 6 | Since she died I have tried without success to get this letter . |
| 7 | I 'm going to brief Major Lower that we should recommend the whole fleet be grounded at least until we 've had time to get this examined in detail and to inspect a few more . ’ |
| 8 | Knowing ( from expensive experience elsewhere ! ) how important it is to keep the fabric in good order , I propose to get this attended to as soon as possible . |
| 9 | I 'd like to get this underbrush cleaned out now . |
| 10 | Their trip from the airport in a launch ( one of the perks of the Governor , Sir David Wilson ) took them as close as they will be allowed to get this week to a Vietnamese boat people 's detention centre — at Argyle Street , Kowloon — as well as past the harbour 's backdrop of skyscrapers , mammoth neon advertisements , and mountains . |
| 11 | first , work out your weight in kg ( multiply your weight in pounds by 0.45 to get this figure ) . |
| 12 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 13 | Alan Ransome , chairman of the English Table Tennis Association , said : ‘ The England teams have had their most successful season for some years , and now to get this vote in our favour is a bonus . ’ |
| 14 | All she wanted was to get this whole thing over with , so she could go home to Kentish Town and sleep in her own bed . |
| 15 | He really has had to struggle to get this project under way . |
| 16 | We are going to get this bugger , lad . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got to get this stamped . ’ |
| 18 | Each was in an envelope ; the envelopes all bore Boy 's name , and the addresses of the twelve different places in which Boy had briefly lived since he had arrived in the city , before he had managed to get this place where he was resident now . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps you would allow me to get this one . ’ |
| 20 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 21 | T. B. You 'd have sergeants who liked to drink and he 'd have a constable in his section who knew where to get this drink , but normally amongst the sergeants , you were apart from the constables . |
| 22 | We had to take it in turns day by day to get this monstrosity going , or freeze to death , and the hours I 've spent wasting matches , holding sheets of paper against the opening to create an up-draught , blowing like a whale whenever a tiny spark appeared ! |
| 23 | To get this allowance , fill in the form at the back of the special death certificate you 'll be given when you register the death . |
| 24 | . ‘ And how are they going to get this ‘ authoritative advice ’ ? |
| 25 | We have to get this clear once and for all and it is the question of what Neil Armstrong said when he landed on the Moon . |
| 26 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |
| 27 | You see , it is n't easy to get this kind of job without having had previous experience , and it 's the only thing I can do , because I 've no qualifications . |
| 28 | To get this information , you 'll need to use the column on the right . |
| 29 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 30 | If you think I am wrong , then fine , but you must know it 's bollocks , he must know it 's bollocks , so why must you even try to get this point across in a publication that has such a big influence on budding , enthusiastic players , a lot of whom have no other contact with the rock establishment ? |