Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to get [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What d'yer want , a bit of 'elp to get to the lav ? |
| 2 | ‘ There is plenty of time to get on the bus . ’ |
| 3 | Remember to leave yourself plenty of time to get to the start and stay clam if there are delays . |
| 4 | They too had been paid in oil to get round the world trade boycott . |
| 5 | And that 's why they 're sort of clambering over the bridge , in order to get onto the shortcut . |
| 6 | The defenders decided to place several artillery places on the river-banks to overlook the road down which the enemy would have to attack in order to get across the liver to lay siege to their objective . |
| 7 | Right from the beginning of that terrible saga , I have been absolutely determined that the United Nations and any other body that it may be necessary to involve in order to get to the bottom of this and to resolve matters for the people of East Timor — they have gone on since 1975 — should have our support . |
| 8 | Before applying the general analysis to Ireland , and in order to get to the heart of the matter , it is first necessary to understand the close relationship between beliefs and violence within the context of the state in general . |
| 9 | If in order to get to the root of it Eliot consulted a Viennese expert , the result was not evidently a cure , because I believe he suffered from it all his life : but the consultation , if that was what it was , may have benefited him by disclosure — ‘ the luxury of an intimate disclosure to a stranger ’ . |
| 10 | In this context , the term inquisitorial seems to mean that chairs feel they have the freedom to investigate cases and elicit the information they think they need in order to get to the truth of the situation , rather than to choose between competing arguments . |
| 11 | I argue for this in Chapter 12 concerning the possibility of participation in school worship at different levels , one level being a conscious but temporary withholding of the critical faculties in order to get on the wavelength of a particular belief . |
| 12 | Where Whitehall mandolins would be sat on especially those who were involved in over interpreting general directives from Brussels and this side of the house has been jostling for position I am told , in order to get on the standing committee which is about to start upstairs . |
| 13 | And of course you really , in order to get at the origins of history , you 've really got to go back to the , to the Greeks . |
| 14 | Since that would mean that the World Bank would talk less to governments , one of the Treasury 's main reasons for bullying the IFC is in order to get at the Bank . |
| 15 | For instance , when he is wheeled to the toilet , he stands up in order to get into the wheelchair , and again to move onto the toilet , instead of being lifted or transferred . |
| 16 | Electors in various parts of the country had cleared out some of the cranks who were prostitutes in the Labour movement in order to get into the House of Commons . |
| 17 | The contras had been supported , through the CIA , since 1981 ; in 1984 , in order to get round the Boland amendments ( which forbade the administration to spend appropriated money on the contras ) management of the war was brought into an office on the third floor of a building beside the White House . |
| 18 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 19 | Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ . |
| 20 | They were all in a room near the adjutant 's office , waiting for Woolley to get off the phone to Corps H.Q. and tell them where the day 's flying would be . |