Example sentences of "[noun] get it [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
2 | James Bond gets it in the neck from Korean goon Oddjob |
3 | So sure enough we let the tyres down sufficiently for it to be roadworthy and not to destroy the tyres on the way there , but soft enough just so that it would go down , and we edged it through and Roy got it through the middle and off we went . |
4 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
5 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
6 | That 's right , and it 's no coincidence because people in the east of London on the whole get it in the neck whatever happens , and particularly with this government . |
7 | And if Robin gets it in the neck I shall get it in the neck and I shall be getting it in the neck because of you ! |
8 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
9 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
10 | I quite like the design of the Quattro , the trigger mechanism is very smooth and easy , although the thick thumbed may have trouble getting it past the tape loop . |
11 | Only time will tell , but it will require a number of dedicated members to get it off the ground . |
12 | The official ones get it from the government back home , the rest have to earn it . |
13 | What better way to get it off the ground than by leading an armada of rafts up river , parading before the assembled crowd of onlookers ? |
14 | Switchboard was formed in 1974 out of an alliance between the old Gay Liberation Front office collective , who donated the office , and Gay News , who donated the publicity and energy to get it off the ground . |
15 | ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible . |