Example sentences of "[adv] get [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road .
2 The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing .
3 I 'll only get in the way .
4 The powers do perhaps get into the habit of erm of erm of meeting together .
5 The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up .
6 I 'd better get over the road
7 He had better get to the headmaster and warn him .
8 Lookout you get you better get on the thing .
9 I thought we 'd better get out the way there !
10 Short-term goals should be achievable in the near future if the vagaries of daily life or training mistakes do n't constantly get in the way .
11 Oxygen can just get into the pocket and bind to the iron but , due partly to the absence of water , ca n't oxidise it .
12 You might just get to a goal that is difficult to master , or you could find that when you are about half-way through your goals you get stuck and can go no further .
13 If she could just get to the phone box — The car cruised along at her speed .
14 can I just get to the washer ?
15 Can you just get out the way please !
16 You will need to remove and discard the detachable lid , which is a feature of many cat litter trays , since this will just get in the way , and means that accidents are more likely to happen .
17 He deliberately placed little emphasis on Crack in his film , because he ‘ figured it would just get in the way . ’
18 Remove the drug , and the normal signals can no longer get over the barrier that has been erected .
19 She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him .
20 erm Every year it does n't normally get in the press but we have to do a deal with all the federations abroad , the Swedes , the Danes , everybody and erm the Danes could n't erm accept what we put to them this year .
21 He 'll soon get over the damage you 've done to his ego ! ’
22 You can easily get into a situation where the model is flying forwards relative to the ground but is actually flying backwards through the air .
23 For example , as I indicated in discussing personal care , it is regarded as legitimate for children to think about their own interests when deciding whether to support a parent , but this is balanced rather delicately with the morality of obligation and duty , so that children can quite easily get into the position where they are regarded as too self-interested .
24 She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain .
25 ‘ You 'd better not get into a hassle with this guy , ’ Harvey interrupted .
26 I could not get into a routine because there was nothing to get into a routine with !
27 ‘ We reckon there are anything between 1m and 2m people who want to play golf but can not get into a club , ’ says Neil Hayward of the English Golf Union .
28 ‘ I will not get into the gutter with that guy , ’ said their candidate , Eisenhower , who owed his wartime career to General Marshall 's promotion of him .
29 Clinical director Paul Lawler , who heads the intensive care unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , said desperately ill patients were being turned away because they could not get into the unit .
30 He said that dichloromethane , for instance , has a very short atmospheric lifetime , so it does not get into the stratosphere and cause the same problems as CFCs , carbon tetrachloride or 1,1,1-trichloroethane .
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