Example sentences of "[conj] to get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The terrain being flat , the wind tore across scrub and heathland unimpeded , and the snow it drove ahead of itself banked against our cottage , so that to get out to the pump we had to dig ourselves a path . |
| 2 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |
| 3 | He felt he needed to rebuild the relationship — not , of course , to revive it as a total marriage , but to get back to the level of intermittent companionship which seemed to have gone . |
| 4 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 5 | I even considered swooning so as to get out of the room when suddenly a secret door just behind the throne was thrown open and the most incredible sight emerged : a man , black as night , well over two yards high . |