Example sentences of "[vb base] get [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If you really want to get to grips with inland detecting , then I suggest you learn a little Portuguese and try to make yourself understood to any of the farmers who invariably can be seen selling oranges by the roadside . |
2 | People will say , you know , this person , and they wo n't mention their names , after a few hours together , we start to get to grips with the nature of influencing , and the names start falling out . |
3 | Once you 've got to grips with your machine ( whichever the model ) there are several accessories you can buy to extend your knitting . |
4 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
5 | Yeah but I do n't , see savings they 've got on suits at the moment , special offers on them cos they 're not shifting them . |
6 | In the hotel , once again we 've got ta get all these , we 've got ta things into a room which is obvious , but you 've got ta get things up through the lift and you 've got this bottleneck . |
7 | And I I thought the only ones I 've ever seen and they 've got like things like three eight and Chevvy or maybe a V er . |
8 | I have got of piles of papers between er still . |
9 | However , we will have to leave this for now with a sense of pessimism , because we will find no way forward until we have got to grips with forces other than production change which , very much in interaction with production change , are constitutive of civil society and of social being . |
10 | There 's obviously been a misunderstanding there , a lack of communication or whatever , but whereas some departments have got to grips with the issue , unfortunately police wor finance working party just stuck to the traditional way , rather reminiscent of Mr 's old budget working party days , which does n't get to grips with the real needs and the real costs . |
11 | Have to get to grips with what this does to the image . |
12 | It is not enough , therefore , to say that more women should do science , or that domestic economy should be compulsory for both sexes ; we have to get to grips with the ways in which ‘ femininity ’ is consistently devalued , both in society generally and specifically in the education system . |
13 | Jet lag , culture shock , altitude sickness ; we struggle to get to grips with this , our first morning in South America . |
14 | Do n't forget that while third party software authors struggle to get to grips with OLE 2 , Microsoft has been demonstrating how prototypes will work using its own applications software . |
15 | We 've also seen it happening , to an extent in properties in Bishopsfield as well erm I really think we need to get to grips with what we seem to be doing , which de-counting people prematurely early er , in response to , to housing developments which we are planning to undertake in in partnership with other people and leaving ourselves open to this and not |