Example sentences of "[noun] to get [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 2 | We are likely to repeat previous styles to get us through the pain , but a point can be reached where the old ways no longer work . |
| 3 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 4 | Now of course with wardrobes that are three foot wide it 's an impossibility to get them up the stairs . |
| 5 | At about 30 yards ' ( 27 m ) range , he began his charge , relying on speed to get him to the target before the pigs knew what was about to hit them . |
| 6 | In nineteen eighty two , a loaf was thirty seven P and in ninety sorry eighty two , thirty seven P , ninety two , it 's fifty four P and er I 'm reliably informed by er my wife that you can actually get loaves less than that if you go to the er large supermarkets where they 're discounting the bread to get you in the store obviously . |
| 7 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 8 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 9 | Well , okay , now it it may be that one of the things that that relates to again is the meeting that we talked about , erm and the need to get them around the table and begin to talk about those sort of things . |
| 10 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 11 | The generous buffet is both pleasing to the eye and the taste buds , with free wine to get you in the mood for an evening of entertainment . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
| 13 | The phone wo n't ring because there 's a two-second delay to get you into the device . |
| 14 | Here are 10 New Year resolutions to get you in the mood . |
| 15 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 16 | He managed to avoid the morning shower by lingering over the cleaning of his shoes , and decided on a strategy to get him to the matron without attracting comment . |
| 17 | Only time will tell , but it will require a number of dedicated members to get it off the ground . |
| 18 | There ai n't no pill to get you off the powder , Mr Breakspear , only will power . |
| 19 | He 's probably counting on family connections to get you on the cheap ! |
| 20 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 21 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Got some new tablets to get me through the Season supposed to be revolutionary — solve all problems . ’ |
| 23 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
| 24 | ‘ He promises the world to get you into the mood , ’ said a Kensington socialite who dated him several times . |
| 25 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 26 | She could borrow the grey , using its strength to get her to the nearest village . |
| 27 | To further complicate matters , it 's sometimes necessary to move blocks to a safe place first , but again taking care to get them in the correct sequence for later use . |
| 28 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 29 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
| 30 | At the moment , we 've got , Devon County Council 's Recycling Working Party who are very likely to be paying our site 's rental charges , for at least the first year to get us off the ground . |