Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to get [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete says he just wanted to get in the air so he read about the sport in magazines and then got in touch with the association … he says the sport is easy if you know what you are doing but you can pay dearly for your mistakes |
| 2 | He still managed to get up the stairs in the pavilion to help launch Berkshire 's new sponsorship , but then perhaps he thought that the name of the sponsors — the Head Partnership — was far enough removed from his own problems to be of no concern . |
| 3 | The main files were destroyed in the explosion , but they also managed to get to the back-ups and destroy them . ’ |
| 4 | But he then had to get across the gully and connect up the wires to brin' this lot down on top of us . ’ |
| 5 | The trouble was that the paper never seemed to get off the ground , which was typical of the Big Flame and ‘ Beyond the Fragments ’ approach . |