Example sentences of "[adv] to get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to put three together to get a successful flame . |
| 2 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 3 | I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue . |
| 4 | We were not terribly surprised when he was informed that he would only receive the basic amount , since he had been lucky enough to get a golden handshake . |
| 5 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 6 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |
| 7 | And at least we 've been lucky enough to get a bottom bunk . ’ |
| 8 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 9 | The fact that no one plant can supply a balanced diet is not a problem because there are many different plants which supply different quantities of different necessary constituents of a diet so it is simple enough to get the right foods for a balanced diet . |
| 10 | During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop . |
| 11 | I thought that I 'd let all you people who are n't fortunate enough to get the yorkshire evening post ( YEP ) know what 's going on in their weekly United Insight column . |
| 12 | It might seem little enough to get an extra bus stop or pedestrian crossing , but those are real concerns for local people and such matters affect the way they regard you politically . |
| 13 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 14 | I 've spent hours , literally , dialling and re-dialling the place only to get the engaged tone every time . |
| 15 | When beating the sideways force of the wind is at a maximum and so we need the daggerboard right down to get a good grip on the water and stop the boat drifting sideways . |
| 16 | People are flooding in to get the exceptional bargains on offer , ’ said a House of Fraser spokesman . |
| 17 | It 's good for a direct amp-type sound ; I ca n't crank an amplifier up here that loud , so to get a good sound I might as well put it straight into the desk . ’ |
| 18 | So to get the new fare you multiply the old fare by one point one seven . |
| 19 | Daunting as that may sound , it 's nothing to what a maker the size of Rover must go through to get an average family car into fully type-approved production . |
| 20 | As it is , a different worry confronts the West : how best to get the Bosnian Serbs to change their minds . |
| 21 | In fact I 'm hoping not to get a new ideal until after Christmas ! |
| 22 | how we were back to our best and they were extremely lucky not to get a good hiding . |
| 23 | But Lightbody must surely be the first not to get a senior trial in his year as Irish singles champion . |
| 24 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 25 | It is false economy not to get the right expert , even though getting the right expert may be more expensive . |
| 26 | What is really wanted is not to get the important crate to the door , but to get it there without expending more effort than necessary . |
| 27 | In so many areas the advance man ( who may or may not be the same as the event organiser ) has the on-the-spot knowledge which headquarters staff or the committee can never have — and it 's a mistake not to get the maximum use from it . |
| 28 | Its never too soon to get a big idea planted in a young head . |
| 29 | The sentry is claimed to have replied : " Now do n't abaht , I 've got one up the spaht … " but rushed away to get the orderly corporal who , in turn , found the situation beyond his authority , and we were only released by no less than the duty officer . |
| 30 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |