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 | John Eckmire , managing director of Labatt 's , the lager brewers who pump £2million into the team , said : ‘ All the sponsors need to get together to get the two men talking again . |
| 3 | ‘ This trio only has long-term chances of survival if it uses all chances to work together to get the best results , ’ he said . |
| 4 | From the corner of my eye I saw Nigger retreat a couple of paw lengths , perhaps to get a better run at me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the few considered politically reliable enough to get a closer look , there can be no mistake . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you are lucky enough to get a few rays of sunshine , you are still faced with the possibility of playing on frosty fairways in sub-freezing temperatures and having to pack your clubs away by 4pm when visibility declines . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And at least we 've been lucky enough to get a bottom bunk . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've spent hours , literally , dialling and re-dialling the place only to get the engaged tone every time . |
| 20 | It is also worthwhile attempting the occasional no airbrake touch down to get a better idea of how far your glider will float . |
| 21 | Space and depth are easily confused ; an animal 20 yards down may appear to be only a few feet away , and in following it down to get a closer look , a diver may suddenly find himself well past prescribed diving depths . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So National Savings , that 's not a bad decision , cos I mean National Savings are absolutely secure , and the other thing is that you do n't need to put twenty five thousand pounds in to get the highest rate , you 'll get the highest rate from two thousand pounds upwards , so it 's very good for small amounts . |
| 24 | People are flooding in to get the exceptional bargains on offer , ’ said a House of Fraser spokesman . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | So to get the new fare you multiply the old fare by one point one seven . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As it is , a different worry confronts the West : how best to get the Bosnian Serbs to change their minds . |
| 29 | In fact I 'm hoping not to get a new ideal until after Christmas ! |
| 30 | how we were back to our best and they were extremely lucky not to get a good hiding . |