Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clint has tried to get into the lift with A Boy , and the 11-year-old 's minder has said ‘ No way man . |
| 2 | ‘ One of my regrets is leaving this project just as it has started to get off the ground , ’ said Det Insp Williams , who started out as a PC in the Cheshire Constabulary in 1963 . |
| 3 | They belonged to a friend of his who 'd decided to get off the sinking ship quickly . |
| 4 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 5 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 6 | The whole legion of them from all sorts of different things , you know , there was the , the one about the , the secretary of the , of the club , the secretary of some organization , youth organization , said , in her annual reports , commented on how many young girls they 'd managed to get in the club that year . |
| 7 | When she did come we were all excited , but we all got told to get off the concourse and hide ! |
| 8 | ‘ But with seven forwards on this summer 's tour and Andy Platt back on the scene , he would have struggled to get into the team . ’ |
| 9 | But at least he is here , she thought , and wondered if she would really have tried to get into the Workshops by herself if she had had to . |
| 10 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 11 | After that they had decided to get across the other side and ‘ maybe give the girls a fright ’ , an entirely mad idea that could only end in tears , and all the better for it . |
| 12 | The travellers will then find out if they 've got to get on the move again . |
| 13 | And they 've got to get to the chutes to dispositer the rubbish . |
| 14 | and you 've got to get to the station |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got to get inside the station , Ace . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got to get inside the castle . |
| 17 | How can I do it , I 've got to get in the building first |
| 18 | Perkin had had to get over the shock of finding my familiar ski-jacket and boots in the boathouse and then the far worse shock of the cataclysmic reversal of his scheme when Harry and I both lived . |
| 19 | Because of my lack of work , I had planned to get through the final exam by doing problems in theoretical physics and avoiding questions that required factual knowledge . |
| 20 | Now they 've managed to get round the popular vote . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said at the finish , ‘ there was a rumour a few years ago that some Russo had managed to get to the top of the mountain . ’ |
| 22 | Elizabeth , meanwhile , had managed to get down the lane and had reached her father-in-law 's farm , even though the narrow cart track was blocked in several places where the snow had drifted up against the hedge . |
| 23 | Freddie had managed to get into the hall by now , although even here his hostess had contrived to place her formidable bulk before the front door , her expression revealing , only too plainly , her disappointment at his early departure and her failure at not having conducted the evening more to her advantage . |
| 24 | If Erika Payers had failed to get to the church ( registry office , actually ) on time , it would have been entirely in keeping with her costume . |
| 25 | ‘ We have got to get around the local offices and listen to what they 're saying . ’ |
| 26 | Others have failed to get through the treacherous terrain and past the warring factions . |
| 27 | A further 300 have taken refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw and , although the East German-Czechoslovak border is virtually sealed off and the West German embassy in Prague is surrounded by police who turn would-be refugees away , 30 more have managed to get inside the building . |