Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to get [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bigger set broke on the outside and we dived under it , then paddled out to get beyond the break . |
| 2 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 3 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 4 | In some of his experiments the rats were rolling along to get to the food in the goal-box . |
| 5 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 6 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |