Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to get [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |
| 2 | ‘ The fool tried to get to the horse . |
| 3 | Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was . |
| 4 | And then other countries started to get on the band-wagon and erm , find their own tunes . |
| 5 | Delegates from most of the belligerent countries managed to get to the Zimmerwald Conference in the autumn , but representatives from Britain , appointed by the ILP and the British Socialist Party , were denied passports . |
| 6 | She studied the Workshops , frowning , and Caspar , who was becoming alarmed by this time , saw that this was no ruse to secure his assistance ; Fenella intended to get into the Robemaker 's Workshops and rescue whoever it was who was in there . |
| 7 | The occasion seemed to get to the Aussies then , and this time there will be a 78,000 full house to worry them . |
| 8 | The pound kept falling , Tony Benn failed to get into the shadow cabinet and 70 per cent of Britoil shares failed to find buyers . |
| 9 | As Sergeant King struggled to get into the car of a passing motorist , Vernage continued his attack , plunging his knife again and again into the policeman . |
| 10 | First , the complete omission of ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ ( This may seem surprising , given that the text managed to get into the quarto , even if late ; but as a continuo song it could , at a pinch , have been accompanied by the harpsichordist from a separate sheet , with a gamba player reading over his shoulder . |
| 11 | As the Merseysiders struggled to get into the match , Beagrie picked up a short corner on the left and let fly with a tremendous swirling drive that ricocheted into the net off the post . |
| 12 | He heard the scrape of the guard 's feet as the man scrabbled to get to the door . |
| 13 | Steve Ridley from Pest Control Newcastle managed to get nearest the pin . |
| 14 | Despite high fences and danger warning signs , children managed to get into the remains of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester and use it as an adventure playground . |
| 15 | We crossed over the river into Sweden near the Baltic coast at Haparanda ( and suffered the embarrassment of having to be push started to get off the ferry ) and drove on to Lulea where we called a halt because I had promised to say hello to a friend of a friend who lived there . |
| 16 | Patrick intended to get to the suspects first . |