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

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1 Some service housing is already available to service men on discount purchase , which gives them the opportunity to get on the home ownership ladder .
2 You may agree with honours or not , we 've done this programme a few year ago , Bill , but classless is erm , as I understand it , is to give anyone in this country erm the opportunity to get to the top .
3 You 'll hear evidence from those officers that took the decision to get into the flat .
4 However , I shall study the issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised about the length of time it takes for the grant to get to the applicant and then back to the contractor .
5 As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult .
6 The thieves removed part of the roof to get into the building , and made off with sixteen handguns .
7 Something fell in greenhouse and broke the pane to allow the wind to get into the greenhouse , which is oh dear me , as soon as the wind got into the greenhouse as I say blowing the other panes out
8 The boy to get into the team instead of Brannigan is Brian Crowley of Ennis at middleweight .
9 Today it is the turn of the youngest members of the community to get into the picture , when a Bonny Baby Contest is held at the Youth Centre .
10 A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again .
11 I 'll drop you off at the Jolly Farmer , then you can walk up the hill to get to the school .
12 And if it if it came an air raid you started scurrying to the hill to get in the tunnel .
13 ‘ But neither of us allows our feelings for the other to get in the way of all the things we have to do .
14 I personally prefer an external chest map pocket as you do n't have to undo the jacket to get to the map — particularly important when it 's blowing a hooley .
15 If it is quick about it this will give the electron the chance to get over the hump and repay the loan as it emerges on the other side .
16 It 's also remarkable that the public have been given the chance to get into the debate early .
17 The urge to get in the car and drive to Arrancay , wherever that was , tempted her almost overwhelmingly , but she suppressed it .
18 Where as he bought these machines and cleared up the rubbish to get at the slate .
19 ‘ You passed the exam to get into the place , did n't you ?
20 While Mr Branson and his colleague , Per Lindstrand , hope to use the flight to get into the record books .
21 So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom .
22 Look at the queue to get into the car park .
23 My god , look at the queue to get in the car park .
24 You have to penetrate the hardness to get to the softness .
25 The only way to develop a prototype is for the analyst to get inside the head of the user and , thinking like a user , decide what sort of system is required .
26 So I had to take it from the telesales side to get the appointment to get in the door to do a demonstration and then to do the after sales .
27 Radiance Strathdee , the author of research carried out for Centrepoint , said this was not enough : ‘ There is a need for the government to get round the table with local authorities , not to lay down guidance , but to look at strategies to set about moving the impasse which exists ’ .
28 As they left the hospital , Evelyn grabbed her hand to cross the road to get to the car park .
29 In the rush to get to the tail of the pool , I stumbled over a rock , and in putting out a hand to save a bad fall , dropped the rod and line into the water .
30 In anticipation of the rush to get round the mast , the front foot is placed by the mast foot .
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