Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [pers pn] [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 | Now of course with wardrobes that are three foot wide it 's an impossibility to get them up the stairs . |
3 | At about 30 yards ' ( 27 m ) range , he began his charge , relying on speed to get him to the target before the pigs knew what was about to hit them . |
4 | In nineteen eighty two , a loaf was thirty seven P and in ninety sorry eighty two , thirty seven P , ninety two , it 's fifty four P and er I 'm reliably informed by er my wife that you can actually get loaves less than that if you go to the er large supermarkets where they 're discounting the bread to get you in the store obviously . |
5 | Well , okay , now it it may be that one of the things that that relates to again is the meeting that we talked about , erm and the need to get them around the table and begin to talk about those sort of things . |
6 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
7 | The generous buffet is both pleasing to the eye and the taste buds , with free wine to get you in the mood for an evening of entertainment . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
11 | The phone wo n't ring because there 's a two-second delay to get you into the device . |
12 | The numbing stupor got her through the next few hours . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
15 | He managed to avoid the morning shower by lingering over the cleaning of his shoes , and decided on a strategy to get him to the matron without attracting comment . |
16 | Only a mad dash got them to the meeting on time . |
17 | His Burmese is n't as good as Thubron 's Chinese , but he gets on terms with the locals without patronage , and his wit gets us through the potentially boring bits . |
18 | There ai n't no pill to get you off the powder , Mr Breakspear , only will power . |
19 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
20 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
21 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
22 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
23 | ‘ He promises the world to get you into the mood , ’ said a Kensington socialite who dated him several times . |
24 | She could borrow the grey , using its strength to get her to the nearest village . |
25 | To further complicate matters , it 's sometimes necessary to move blocks to a safe place first , but again taking care to get them in the correct sequence for later use . |
26 | " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields . |
27 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
28 | At the moment , we 've got , Devon County Council 's Recycling Working Party who are very likely to be paying our site 's rental charges , for at least the first year to get us off the ground . |
29 | Milton was developing a certain respect for the Colonel 's ability to get him off the main point of the interview . |
30 | He has the ability to get you into the right frame of mind , to get you mentally prepared . |