Example sentences of "[adv] to get [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gained his school colours for rugger and was unlucky not to get them for the Field Game and the Wall Game — another game confined to Eton . |
| 2 | As I have emphasised three times , the previous Select Committee on Health and Social Services made a number of pleas to the Government not to get us into the position that we are in now . |
| 3 | Through the Princes ' Trust in the month we actually give grants to something like twenty people , just to get them off the street , because there was nowhere else they could turn to . |
| 4 | As it was , she had to draw on reserves of courage she had n't even known she possessed just to get her through the opening number . |
| 5 | Just to get you into the mood perhaps , is it possible to have a report back on the visit to ? |
| 6 | The idea of the hostel is just to get you off the streets , so to speak . |
| 7 | They were out to get me from the start . |
| 8 | The idea took shape some five years ago in the back room of London 's Bull & Gate , and it 's taken until now to get it on the road — for 32 days only . |
| 9 | Do n't let it come across like that , the temptation is to think that you 've got to have all this bit up here , now you do n't want this up here because it 's very difficult to cope with once you 've tied it round to get it round the elbow , you want the least amount that you can get , just cover the arm and then it makes it much easier to deal with at the end . |