Example sentences of "to get [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day starts with the great American breakfast , which , if you have n't managed to get as part of your hotel deal , should be eaten in a local coffee shop or diner and will set you back $3-$4 for eggs , bacon , toast and unlimited coffee . |
| 2 | We used to get about £3 a week . |
| 3 | A fat , bombastic , pig-eyed , treacherous son of a turd who destroyed the best of men because he wanted to get between Anne Boleyn 's legs and , when he did , could n't do much about it . |
| 4 | The Bill took four years to get through Parliament , during which time Owen was subjected to abuse by those who opposed it , and on his deathbed in 1858 , a clergyman who came ( needlessly ) to offer him the consolations of religion asked him if he regretted having wasted his life in fruitless efforts ! |
| 5 | The work was hard ; hard to frame , hard to get through committees , hard to get accepted . |
| 6 | Mr Bell was dismissive of the criticisms , commenting : ‘ I have managed to get through campaigns without knowing the names of my opponents and I think I will be reasonably successful this time , too . ’ |
| 7 | They make it almost impossible for outsiders to get through army cordons and into the region . |
| 8 | The plan was to get through postgrad. school , get a part-time lecturer 's job , a studio in Wapping and become a Real Artist . |
| 9 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 10 | By some miraculous quirk of fate , I have so far managed to get through life as a jobbing hack without ever once having to put my opinions on the preachers into print . |
| 11 | I wished to get through life along the lanes and side roads , unseen . |
| 12 | That brings me onto another point which is made in the panel 's submission that people have talked all the time about the limits of traffic management on the A sixty one as if the objective of traffic management was to get through Harrogate quicker . |
| 13 | Some of us want to get through GCE next year , you know . ’ |
| 14 | Ambulances struggle to get through Hollyhurst Road in emergencies . |
| 15 | I thought I was doing well , I thought this is marvellous , here 's me manag managing to get through Christmas . |
| 16 | Boxing Day , like all Boxing Days , was a day of clearing up and trying to get through left-overs . |
| 17 | The young policemen in the cordon were polite , she said , but an older officer told her to get off home in obscene terms . |
| 18 | Of course , she would have to get off smack in the long run . |
| 19 | I never had any money erm that would help me to get off benefit , I was caught in the benefit trap and now I 've been able to get a part time job , my husba ex-husband 's paying a reasonable amount and my children are better off . |
| 20 | I want to get off drugs ? |
| 21 | Well the point that I wanted to get off drugs was , my family not wanting any more to do with me , erm , they 'd shut the door on me . |
| 22 | I had conjunctivitis and I was trying to get off work because my eyes were really bad . |
| 23 | Opt for a self-drive car only if you want to spend the whole day struggling to get off Hong Kong Island . |
| 24 | On duty she strode about looking as if she could not wait to get off duty and chuck a discus . |
| 25 | Or like my mum and dad , who were as keen as anyone to get off Earth , but had n't the gumption or the connections to get a work permit on an orbital . |
| 26 | and erm , and then every time the poor women went to get off stage he says oh Joan you ca n't go , come here , let's , he said we ca n't just give you that so he , he called her back and they bought give her a rabbit |
| 27 | ‘ But why bother , I ask myself , when all you 're goin' to get for breakfast is a worm . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 29 | Notes saying what to get for supper , notes telling him not to leave his shoes by the bed … sometimes she left him notes telling him how she felt . |
| 30 | Right below the press box he tried to get past Tambay and I could swear his wheels were n't more than inches from the pit-wall as he tried , and failed , to get by . |