Example sentences of "to get [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work was hard ; hard to frame , hard to get through committees , hard to get accepted . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Boxing Day , like all Boxing Days , was a day of clearing up and trying to get through left-overs . |
| 4 | I want to get off drugs ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 8 | Many of the players refused to get into shorts , and the Empire goalie wore cricket pads over striped long johns . |
| 9 | But er if you stick to the sort of er top ten , you know the sort of Alliance and Leicester , the Leeds Permanent , the Halifax , the erm the sort of Nationwides , then you 're unlikely to get into difficulties . |
| 10 | Each hen then learns to give way to stronger hens than herself ; she learns not to get into fights she would probably lose . |
| 11 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 12 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 13 | The aim was to help tenants not to get into arrears . |
| 14 | And here lies a contradiction at the heart of AT&T 's original business , even before it tried to get into computers . |
| 15 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 16 | At Hall Rise , a radio/cassette player , worth £120 , was taken and thieves tried to get into vehicles in Blott Rise , Town End Field and Sauls Avenue . |
| 17 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 18 | A journalist tries to get into places other people are trying to get out of . |
| 19 | I find it hard to get into relationships . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd had a couple of years to put the break-up into perspective and I know , personally , I was missing the lads and the buzz I used to get from songs like ‘ Suspect Devices ’ and ‘ Straw Dogs ’ . |
| 21 | What have they got to get from bowls to there |
| 22 | In the tank we had to get in huddles to keep us warm . |
| 23 | Lets just hope Lee Sharpe gives Dorigo some sort of support this time , instead of pissing off and leaving tony to cover the whole left flank — AND to get in crosses . |
| 24 | Used to get in pictures for thruppence , tuppence and thruppence . |
| 25 | Go in mummies car if it 's smaller to get in places , daddy . |
| 26 | In the Zen and Taoist traditions , it was always the aim to get beyond words to the direct experience , and an emphasis on the senses rather than the thoughts may be a help in achieving this very necessary state . |
| 27 | Excluded , naturally , from the better parties , some of them would attempt to get on terms with their social superiors by bursting in with a search warrant in one hand and evidence in another , which they would produce from nowhere like cabaret artists plucking doves out of the air . |
| 28 | If we 're going to live in these fields , we 'll have to get on terms with his lot sooner or later , and it goes against the grain to hang about and admit we dare n't visit them . " |
| 29 | Hari said quickly , ‘ I 've told you not to try to get down stairs on your own , not with your legs so bad . ’ |
| 30 | By establishing pre-designed recovery protection mechanisms as a form of insurance policy , such as arrangements with trusted friends who will give open and honest feedback when asked — and sometimes when not asked — and help the sufferer to get to meetings and do whatever else pay be constructive . |