Example sentences of "[be] to get [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 2 | ‘ The idea of the new move is to get away from the possibilities of cross-contamination ’ , a ministry spokeswoman said . |
| 3 | What we both needed was to get away for a couple of days , to go somewhere peaceful , relaxing and free of any association with the past , where we could work out where we stood . |
| 4 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 5 | The whole night had been a strain , and now all she wanted was to get away from the throng , and , more importantly , away from Luke . |
| 6 | As we have seen , one of the main intentions of interactionism was to get away from the conservative , causal-corrective stance that was seen as resulting from the determinism and absolutism of positivist criminology . |
| 7 | I had a back pocket full of readies as I planned on doing some Christmas shopping while up West and I had no intention of joining the Christmas Eve rush to the lingerie departments of the big stores , so the first thing was to get away from the temptation of the HMV shop . |