Example sentences of "to get [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try to get them off him but am not always successful . |
| 2 | As one constable stated , the ‘ Action Men ’ who are fitness conscious and orientated towards crime-fighting only adopt this mode ‘ to get them off doing work ’ . |
| 3 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 4 | I refused to let the nurse wield her scissors on them and put myself through gyrations of a one-legged contortionist to get them off whole . |
| 5 | They are often dealt with by a system which attempts to get them off benefit , rather than prosecute . |
| 6 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 7 | we 'll be able to get them off Gary I think , yeah . |
| 8 | Through the Princes ' Trust in the month we actually give grants to something like twenty people , just to get them off the street , because there was nowhere else they could turn to . |
| 9 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 10 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 11 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
| 12 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 13 | His main priority now was to get them to safety . |
| 14 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 15 | The purpose of these breaks is to give learners a chance to catch up with the plot ; to get them to a point where they understand enough of what has happened to make a reasonable stab at following the gist of the next part . |
| 16 | We also you know , do our best to get them to er pay pay up when er when when they can , but I mean we 're not always successful in that . |
| 17 | to get them to that level . |
| 18 | The big-spending Hollywood myth retains its influence and the Zombie cast were well looked after by Steenway Productions , with cars organized to get them to and from the set . |
| 19 | Donated by a kind benefactor at some stage and affectionately known as " the old bomb " , it always seemed to get them to country open airs and cottage meetings but took exception to a trip to Sydney for a Congress . |
| 20 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 21 | The rarity of lianes on truly oceanic islands , e.g. Mauritius and Galapagos Islands ( one or two only ) , can be explained by wind-dispersal not being efficient enough to get them to islands . |
| 22 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 23 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 24 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 25 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 26 | In a flash of inspiration , they replaced the oil with mashed bananas , which lubricated the engine just long enough to get them to civilisation . |
| 27 | And , the other thing it took a while for u for us to get them to , they 'd never drunk milk out of a straw , through a straw |
| 28 | We used to get them for one penny the pack in the navy . |
| 29 | Mick was short of them and I was deliberating whether to get them for him . |
| 30 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |