Example sentences of "[vb base] get to [noun] [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 | Try to get to Paris before the blessed Boche . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I can nae , can nae sleep lying down horizontally , I 've got to kind of you know kind of |
| 5 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 6 | so there is this mixture of er of the older element and the younger element which we 've got to sort of marry during this course . |
| 7 | funny squiggles and you 've got to sort of like when you first see X squared , and you think , What 's that ? |
| 8 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 9 | there 's no use bothering to how ours worked you 've got to sort of know how this one works . |
| 10 | You know you 've got to sort of move on . |
| 11 | and I mean it used to be the fact , oh god well we 've got to sort of have dinner at twelve o'clock , we 've got to be round there by four . |
| 12 | You sees like cutting , you know you see these walls that are like that and they sort of go down like that and join a pillar and do the same again , just , instead of doing that you lay the soldiers across the top and you , you 've got to sort of cut the bricks in between ai n't ya ? |
| 13 | I know , but you 've got to sort of set your sights realistically have n't you ? and there 's a lot |
| 14 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 15 | and you 've got to sort of well |
| 16 | So I 've got to sort of I 've got ta record a . |
| 17 | Once you 've got to grips with your machine ( whichever the model ) there are several accessories you can buy to extend your knitting . |
| 18 | see if I can get a grade A for this one , that , if I can get a grade A for the er next two pieces that I 'm doing , which I 've got to hand in , that could take me to a B grade after that . |
| 19 | That 's the sort of club it is , you 've got to muck in and do everything . ’ |
| 20 | why they give you ten so that you know , you get intervals , between , because the girls have got to sort of tap all the words in |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry mummy had to rush us so much this morning it 's just when we 're in a rush we have to get to school on time you see , it 's a bit rotten when you 're only three is n't it ? |
| 24 | Have to get to grips with what this does to the image . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jet lag , culture shock , altitude sickness ; we struggle to get to grips with this , our first morning in South America . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 |