Example sentences of "[noun] to get at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |
| 2 | When he removed the crates to get at the tarpaulin he realized it was covering something , further stimulating his interest . |
| 3 | The cook needs room to get at the cooker , sink and cupboards without hindrance and to move around the kitchen comfortably . |
| 4 | ‘ If it 's so easy for Rain Morgan of the Daily Post to get at the truth , it 's a secret which ca n't be kept . ’ |
| 5 | The irony is primarily at the expense of Mrs Moreen ( a lady less refined than she would like to appear ) , and secondarily at the expense of Pemberton ( whom we smile at and with over his impotence to get at the information he wants ) . |
| 6 | Gabo , Moore and Hepworth took sections and punched holes to get at the space within . |
| 7 | You will just need to uudecode the following file called champs to get at the gif called leeds2.gif . |
| 8 | Where as he bought these machines and cleared up the rubbish to get at the slate . |
| 9 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 10 | As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult . |
| 11 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps , with its powerful jaws , it also routinely crunched up bones of dead carcasses to get at the marrow , a scavenger-cum-predator like today 's lion or hyaena . |
| 13 | You 'll probably have to unscrew the joint to get at the basin of the U-bend . |
| 14 | Since that would mean that the World Bank would talk less to governments , one of the Treasury 's main reasons for bullying the IFC is in order to get at the Bank . |
| 15 | There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard . |
| 16 | According to the consortium proposing the mine , digging an open pit is the only way to get at the tungsten , which is embedded as a wolframite ( iron manganese tungstenate ) in a deposit of granite . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't realise I 'd be going round treading on people 's corns to get at the truth ! ’ |