Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 2 | George then shot Lennie because he was angry at Lennie for getting in the way of his dreams coming true . |
| 3 | What turned the campaign around was playing on another strength : his genuine fondness for getting among the public , even a hostile public . |
| 4 | To do it one must be human , with feelings , experience , and some basic capability for getting on the wave-length of other people , as well as having a certain innate logical ability — the kind which enables a baby to learn unaided the mysteries of language . |
| 5 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 6 | One of desktop publishing 's less clever methods of getting round the slowness of high resolution displays on the PC . |
| 7 | Incidentally re : all this talk of getting into the programme and that — if we go ‘ overground ’ you can kiss goodbye to references to Man U as pigs , scum etc or any abuse of opposition anywhere . |
| 8 | That might be a necessary protection in order , e.g. , to prevent a cheque obtained by fraud from getting into the hands of an innocent holder , who would be in better position than the original party to the fraud . |
| 9 | In face-to-face meetings all the visual signals are a great aid to getting on the same wavelength with someone . |
| 10 | Charlton have Pates back in their defence but after seven League matches without a win can not hold out much hope of getting off the bottom this afternoon . |
| 11 | It was Lucy 's hope of getting into the outer office unchallenged . |
| 12 | Now he 's found , but if there 's a hope of getting to the truth about Sabine Jourdain in the next day or two I could linger . ’ |
| 13 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 14 | No , I mean that , you know , that , that all kind of gets off the ground |
| 15 | If they overcome these guards , and manage to break into the cages , the adventurers still have the difficulty of getting into the chests . |
| 16 | His old lady was bearing down in her chair and generally showing signs of getting off the psychic runway in double-quick time . |
| 17 | This video has been put together by Oxfordshire ambulance service to warn young drivers of the dangers of getting behind the wheel . |
| 18 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 19 | All too often their impressions are dismissed as false , having been based on a short , unrepresentative glimpse of part of a lesson , even thought they are usually expert at getting to the heart of the pupils ' experience in a particular classroom . |
| 20 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 21 | James right like Mr right he did n't know right and we have this sort of erm water fountain and he was running towards it and he , and he filled up his mouth with it and he was spitting it everywhere and we were all sort of getting out the way and Mr told him if you do n't want to drink it then leave it alone and he sort of turned and walked away . |
| 22 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 23 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 24 | She 'll get you have to sort of get over the gagging . |
| 25 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 26 | We have to answer an er your Lordships are in danger of getting into the mood of treating this debate as a charge with a single issue to be decided on a single voter . |
| 27 | His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era . |
| 28 | Establishing rapport is the process of getting on the right wavelength with someone — usually , but not inevitably , with someone you are meeting for the first time . |
| 29 | Using a condom can help prevent both men and women getting infected by their partners in penetrative sex , because it prevents vaginal fluids or semen from getting into the other person 's body . |
| 30 | They drive at good-length balls without getting to the pitch and loft strokes over the heads of the inner ring of fieldsmen . |