Example sentences of "to get [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if they were doing their own mailing themselves er mailshot , they 'd be lucky to get between one and two percent reply . |
| 2 | The missions are mercifully short so you 'll often lose it only seconds from home , encouraging you to have another try to get through one more mission . |
| 3 | This time she would have to get past one of Australia 's toughest talent spotters , a woman with a reputation for making or breaking young stars . |
| 4 | The vast majority of them had tried , and failed for one reason or another , to get into one or other of the local preparatory schools . |
| 5 | I wanted to get inside one of the those people . ‘ |
| 6 | I just see everyone pissed , or on the Valium , tryin' to get from one day to the next . |
| 7 | Even in gallery , he wrote , it will disturb no one , merely make it a little more difficult to get from one side of the room to the other . |
| 8 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 9 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 10 | As long as it takes to get from one end to the other ! |
| 11 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 12 | This is exactly what this staircase is , and to get from one room to another you had to go down one staircase and up another . |
| 13 | The object then was as it is today , to get from one place to the next as swiftly as possible . |
| 14 | Such a map will enable the reader to work out for himself how to get from one location to another within the town . |
| 15 | Note the enormous flexibility compared with a routine which would tell him only how to get from one particular point to another . |
| 16 | Any fan trying to get from one end to the other would have to pass through this area and would be immediately arrested . |
| 17 | ‘ The length of a cricket pitch , and you had to move as fast as Denis Compton , believe you me , to get from one end to the other and pull them levers . ’ |
| 18 | But we could tell that it was longer because of the extra tape measures it would take to get from one side to the other . ’ |
| 19 | There was nothing unique in this ; it was n't uncommon in the lanes to find oneself stuck behind a slow-moving tractor with a twelve-year-old in the cab , using public highways to get from one piece of a farm to another . |
| 20 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 21 | Yet , in the model described above , there would not have been time since the big bang for light to get from one distant region to another , even though the regions were close together in the early universe . |
| 22 | They 've stepped down here to get from one piece of pavement to another , yet they look like they spent their whole lives underground . |
| 23 | You gave us five pages to get in one ! |
| 24 | You 're bound to get in one of them somewhere . |
| 25 | One trying to get in one side and the other one I think that 's what it was was n't it ? |
| 26 | I deter anybody who 'd every wanted to get on one of the buses . |
| 27 | I tried to get on one two Mondays ago in Redditch |
| 28 | Sometimes the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ‘ Meals-on-wheels ’ service can help if old people can not prepare food for themselves and are unable to get to one of the many luncheon clubs they run . |
| 29 | In fact when I was stationed in Mule I used to travel through Zambia to get to one of my out stations |