Example sentences of "[adv] to get a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom .
2 As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process .
3 With council and hospitals not understanding their needs , Pat Ayres often has to make numerous calls just to get a new supply of syringes or nappies .
4 The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar .
5 Bartlett suggests that the individual has ‘ an overmastering tendency simply to get a general impression of the whole ; and on the basis of this he constructs the probable detail ’ ( 1932 : 206 ) .
6 Try and think , work out how heavy that tree would be and how difficult it is actually to get a large tree into a lounge , living room , dining room , call it what you will !
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