Example sentences of "[noun] to get [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A consequence of this may be to increase the dependence of the old people on others because they will need their help to get to the toilet and use it . |
| 2 | it 's okay I 'm just borrowing your body to get into the cinema and then you can disappear ! |
| 3 | Chola too complained that there were now two dogs to get in the way and whinge for food . |
| 4 | Lloyd took half-an-hour to get off the mark but finished with 101 as Lancashire piled up 321 for five against Worcestershire . |
| 5 | This last recipient had obviously not used London Transport to get to the Palace or he 'd have missed the ceremony ‘ due to mechanical failure on the Circle Line ’ . |
| 6 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 7 | You know , give us a chance to get into the play and get comfortable on our feet and we 'll have a go , well , Johnson does n't give you that option does he ? |
| 8 | A comfortable little dacha in the peace of the countryside , perhaps , or a manipulated exit visa , a chance to get over the border and over the wall ? |
| 9 | If it is quick about it this will give the electron the chance to get over the hump and repay the loan as it emerges on the other side . |
| 10 | Consumption of drinks and drugs go up : alcohol consumption can increase — maybe to a second scotch before dinner , maybe to two Special Brews to get through the afternoon and a bottle of wine every evening ; smoking can increase , as can the consumption of tea and coffee — even though these are physical stimulants ( and can therefore mimic anxiety ) rather than relaxants . |
| 11 | It 's very windy , of course , so he decides it 's a 2-iron to get to the green and he slams it superbly but it misses right , just off the green . |
| 12 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 13 | They fell over each other to get to the door and tangled themselves into a knot of struggling limbs trying to get out of it . |
| 14 | ‘ I need Joe to get to the by-line and supply the ammunition for our strikers and he knows that . |
| 15 | And I had to walk about fifty yards to get to the van because it was it was in an area that had been partly pedestrianized . |
| 16 | The urge to get in the car and drive to Arrancay , wherever that was , tempted her almost overwhelmingly , but she suppressed it . |
| 17 | In the spadefoot , the intense competition among males for females means that some over-anxious males do not wait for the females to get into the pond but instead waylay them on the way to the breeding ground ; the pair then arrive at the pond already in amplexus . |
| 18 | The Hurricanes had to be shorn of their wings to get through the tunnel but the Fulmars went through with wings folded . |
| 19 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 20 | Mr Deacon saved himself by running through the inferno to get to the staircase and outside . |
| 21 | Then it was brother Alan 's turn to get behind the wheel and he passed . |
| 22 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 23 | However , I shall study the issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised about the length of time it takes for the grant to get to the applicant and then back to the contractor . |
| 24 | If you do n't have enough money to get to the hospital and you do not need ambulance service transport on medical grounds ask the hospital to send you payment in advance . |
| 25 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 26 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 27 | It took him another five minutes to get across the fact that no , he was not a doctor but yes , he was a friend , a very good friend . |
| 28 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 29 | The Individual Programme Plans of Elizabeth and Helen , which took two attempts to get off the ground because of staff changes and inadequate training , have been virtually suspended — even before the first reviews — because of the latest staffing upheaval . |
| 30 | As always women must wear a skirt on or below the knee to get into the enclosure and men have to wear a tie — regatta traditions which are rigidly adhered to . |