Example sentences of "to get [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So we made a plan to get ourselves off the ship , ’ Dr Livesey went on . |
| 2 | We 're in the Division there with them and we 've we 've got to try and win enough of them to get ourselves into a charging position . |
| 3 | General Franco used the army to get himself to power , then kicked it away . |
| 4 | Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome , riding fast and wearing out horses on the way . |
| 5 | The trouble and expense he had gone to get himself on board looked increasingly ominous , I thought . |
| 6 | Twenty-ninth August — the German Army has managed to get itself across the Seine and , according to the news at the Brigade H.Q , 4th Commando Brigade has joined in the pursuit . |
| 7 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 8 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 9 | For the Conservative party which is in essence a party of power , huge historic perspective , huge experience of power , ever to get itself in a position where it 's perceived to be struggling to the point of self destruction , would have its political consequences and they would be dire . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It 's lonely being a long way ahead so you have to get youself into a cocoon to protect yourself from the thoughts that can trouble your mind . ’ |
| 11 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 12 | She 's not the first servant to get herself into trouble and she wo n't be the last . |
| 13 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 14 | Driving to the office , she strove to get herself under control once more . |
| 15 | Personally , I 'd tell her to get herself down the road in double-quick time . ’ |
| 16 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 17 | According to Major-General John Strawson 's A History of the S.A.S. Regiment , its soldiers had to get themselves to the target ‘ by any means from submarine to caique ’ . |
| 18 | The nature of the marketing process may have to vary with customer size ; paint manufacturers will for instance have to get themselves onto a list of approved contractors before they can even bid for orders to major customers such as the railways or car manufacturers . |
| 19 | MILLWALL 's efforts to get themselves on television succeeded earlier this season when their game against Liverpool made The Match . |
| 20 | to get themselves on top form and at full fitness the Tigersharks are off to San Fransisco on Wednesday … club fund raising and the mums and dads are paying the bill … why abroad … |
| 21 | Some actors manage to get themselves into trouble by picking the wrong people to slug it out with — like the police ! |
| 22 | The more we keep them down , the less of them there 'll be to get themselves into trouble . ’ |
| 23 | How on earth had they managed to get themselves into this mess ? |
| 24 | Some people will resort to games in order to get themselves off the hook or to put down another person . |
| 25 | They do n't need chariots with wings to get themselves up the stairs . |
| 26 | — to get myself to Florence . |
| 27 | When the day came I got up very early and managed to get myself into what was almost the front row of the crowd , immediately underneath the platform in Piazza Unità where he was to appear . |
| 28 | Truly sir , to wear out their to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work . |
| 29 | Truly sir , to wear out their sh their shoes to get myself into more work . |
| 30 | Truly sir to wear out their shoes ha ha ha to get myself into more work . |