Example sentences of "[noun pl] to get [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant .
2 I invite er Mr and his supporters to get out of the age of Dickens and into the twentieth century .
3 I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes .
4 It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see .
5 As Pauly ( 1990 : p. 41 ) concluded , ‘ regulatory reforms designed to enhance market efficiency and institutional competitiveness … effectively provided distinct incentives for most banks to get out of the business of development finance ’ .
6 ‘ Then you 've got the jokers who sleep under lorries to get out of the rain .
7 It must come first , and then we can implement it through a sensible reform policy that encourages farmers to get closer to the market , helps them with environmentally friendly farming , does not discriminate against the United Kingdom , helps those in the less-favoured areas and gives early retirement to those who are prepared to restructure their farms .
8 For many people life today is such a bustling affair with so many things to get through in the day that it is not difficult to forget to be aware of what is around us .
9 I began to wish Lou Vecchi had had the brains to get out of the country .
10 ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm .
11 Valerie Shepard finds out how BP and Unipart are combining forces to get ahead of the competition
12 It 's almost as if some teachers hold the belief that the best parents are those that are docile and ignorant about the school , leaving the professionals to get on with the job .
13 He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time .
14 Boys should go to school because they need the skills to get on in the world , because they will spend their lives moving between household and family and the institutions of state and nation .
15 We 've got about four minutes to get back to the hotel . ’
16 It took them almost twenty minutes to get out of the building as they fielded congratulations along the way .
17 It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived .
18 And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor .
19 ‘ If the blame is to be laid at anyone 's door , it was simply my over-zealous attempts to get closer to the wildlife .
20 The two-year-old was snatched to safety by his quick-thinking dad Bob seconds before the off-target skydiver swooped down , frantically yelling at crowds to get out of the way .
21 I am concerned about the absence of provisions for cycle tourists to get out of the city in the most desired directions , viz westwards along the A8 ( trunk road ) , and north-west along the A90 ( also trunk road ) to the Forth Bridge .
22 The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker .
23 Her friends pushed the boat off down the river and ran across the fields to get round to the bridge .
24 Go right , bounce on the trampoline , go up , right , down and paint the button , paint some platforms to bounce out of the cave you 're in , go left , down to the trampoline , go right and fall down , go left and paint the switch , go right and climb the stairs poking out of the cauldron , paint the button on your right , fall down and go left , fall down and go left , fall down and collect the picture from the bottom of the hole , paint some of the ledges to get out of the hole and go right , fall down the right-hand side of the map and go left , paint the switch , go left and paint the next switch .
25 They are not anxious for others to get in on the act .
26 You 'll have to pass under the gate-towers to get down to the west .
27 Britain 's Agriculture Minister John Gummer yesterday urged parties to the GATT trade talks to get back round the negotiating table because there was a ‘ deal in sight ’ .
28 Mr Saville added : ‘ If they slap a CPO on the site , then it will be up to the councils to get on with the job of reclamation .
29 That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform .
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