Example sentences of "[verb] to get [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you do n't need to get into the argy bargy |
| 2 | Last night Mr Roseberry said : ‘ I was hit as I tried to get into the pub . |
| 3 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |
| 4 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 5 | he tried to get into the house Rhys were |
| 6 | Women who tried to get into the car park without a pass this morning were allowed through the barrier , but council officials warned them that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they try again tomorrow . |
| 7 | Molly raised her voice slightly as though speaking to a foreigner and tried to get to the heart of the matter . |
| 8 | The two prisoners , in their yellow raincoats , tried to get to the door , but the men in white knocked them to the floor and handcuffed their hands behind their backs . |
| 9 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 10 | ‘ The fool tried to get to the horse . |
| 11 | She picks it up and she tried to get in the bath with some of my daughters the other day . |
| 12 | He got up out of bed and then I was thinking then he had a sneaky feeling that he tried to get out the door . |
| 13 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 14 | " Some of those guys in America ca n't wait to get into the Senior 's Tour where the money is terrific " says giant 17 stone Barnes heading for the magic 50 himself . |
| 15 | ‘ Daddy ca n't wait to get over the Atlas . |
| 16 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 17 | Gazza ca n't wait to get in the action . |
| 18 | By the time a patient comes to consult me ( of any other professional therapist for that matter ) , he is aware that he has some sort of problem in his life and that he wants to get to the bottom of it . |
| 19 | Although , like every climber , he wants to get to the summit , Bryan says the team 's success is more important than any individual . |
| 20 | ‘ Everybody wants to get into the act , ’ Chico said . |
| 21 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 22 | Not one of Norrington 's finest recordings then , but one that at least has one rethinking these delightful scores in the wake of countless recordings that have found me positively itching to get to the end ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | With both the Intel Corp Pentium processor and its own Alpha RISC chip ready to enter the personal computer market this year , Digital Equipment Corp is expected to get around the problem by offering parallel lines of nearly identical systems based on the two chips , US PC Week reports . |
| 25 | With both the Intel Corp Pentium processor and its own Alpha RISC chip ready to enter the personal computer market this year , Digital Equipment Corp is expected to get around the problem by offering parallel lines of nearly identical systems based on the two chips , US PC Week reports . |
| 26 | Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter . |
| 27 | Look , I know something 's going on here — and I want to get to the bottom of it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We just want to get to the bottom of things ’ |
| 29 | Last night Marine Ian Mallard 's father , Malcolm , declared : ‘ I want to get to the bottom of things once and for all . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We want to find out what happened , we just want to get to the bottom of things . ’ |