Example sentences of "have been to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 2 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 3 | He will be aware , bearing in mind the other pressures we have on the budget this year , how difficult it has been to get a higher priority for roads . |
| 4 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 5 | ‘ Constanza 's next task would have been to get her to leave Italy … without too much pain . |
| 6 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |
| 8 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 9 | However , if our main aim had been to get as many ‘ ordinary people ’ involved as possible , this was in danger of being frustrated by the sheer bureaucracy of the process . |
| 10 | Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established . |
| 11 | Her aim had been to get the girls excited about mathematics , and to give them confidence in their own ability . |
| 12 | Her only plan had been to get to her cousin and retrieve the jade . |