Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to grips " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 2 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 3 | Despite such claims , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that in both the USA and the UK , the audio-visual movement rarely came to grips with the need for an elaborated theory going beyond the use of audio-visual materials as decorative additions to the traditional lesson . |
| 4 | However , as Celtic gradually got to grips in midfield the service to Kiwomya dried up . |
| 5 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |
| 6 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |
| 7 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |