Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to get [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I should think it was about ten , fifteen years later , and it was so easy to get into the country .
2 He is one of the best midfield players in the country , and he 's so quick to get into the box .
3 The next three-quarters of an hour were taken up with wondering why it was taking us so long to get from the airport to the Consulate , and what genius had decided to place the Consulate some hundreds of miles away .
4 Unfortunately , I was only able to get to the Newbury Rally for one day this year .
5 Since it is not possible to get inside the heads of actors , the discovery of meaning must be based on interpretation and intuition .
6 It was because everyone was so desperately grateful to get off the shifting , jerking , swaying ladders the Navy called gangways .
7 The Dean was not prepared to get into a wrangle with Wheeler about a diocesan servant .
8 If I pick and choose at this stage , I 'm not likely to get off the ground .
9 It is not always easy to get into the New Zealand landscape .
10 What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth .
11 Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind .
12 Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires .
13 At 0-0 , they missed 2 of the best chances you 're ever likely to get in a cup tie against a premier league side .
14 ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer .
15 And with many rights of way and good marked trails it is also easy to get into the heart of the countryside .
16 Just as it was important to get used to pressing ‘ Enter ’ less frequently , so it is also important to get into the habit of moving around a document quickly and accurately .
17 We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces .
18 Historians are rarely able to get to the truth of the matter in this way , but family stories often suggest that drunkenness was the reason for an otherwise inexplicable decline , not just in the Tudor and Stuart era but in much later times .
19 She might exasperate him , but she was fully as intelligent as he was and it would be as well to get to the bottom of this .
20 It was n't necessary to get to the United States .
21 The new tactic means their tanks would not only be hard to hit , but British and American tanks would find it virtually impossible to get through the minefields .
22 ‘ Well , as I know from personal experience it 's almost impossible to get to the rear of this house from the front when the door at the end of the passageway between the garage and the house wall is locked .
23 Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes .
24 It is very easy to get into a muddle with your files , especially when you are busy or need to use several disks to store them .
25 It is very easy to get into the habit of making all of your turns to the left and a point will be reached where you will be very reluctant to turn right .
26 ‘ Perhaps he 's too ill to get to a telephone , ’ said Mervyn in a satisfied tone-'that 's what it is . ’
27 That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play .
28 By that time it may be too late to get into the market place with the product .
29 As the Mercedes crossed the bridge to the gate , he leaned back and said softly , ‘ Too late to get off the roundabout now , Walter , far too late . ’
30 Not only did the street fill with sirens and blue lights like an episode of Kojak , the cops that piled up the stairs were too fat to get through the attic space and pursue the men .
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