Example sentences of "get [pers pn] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I want to get you back to the house and into a warm bed . ’ |
| 32 | Is your boss still being sympathetic about your problems , or is he itching to get you back to the office ? ’ |
| 33 | I hope you 'll be up soon — we must arrange to get you down to the cottage , it would be a hoot . |
| 34 | I dashed out down the street to the pub to get him round to the cottage before Mr Vulcan changed his mind . |
| 35 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 36 | ‘ If I ca n't get her back to the sea , I 'll have to become a farmer , ’ he said . |
| 37 | But it was a note from Peter and Marianne , making arrangements to get her out to the wedding . |
| 38 | How do you get it through to the boss ? |
| 39 | If that is allowed you must get it back to the interviewer as soon as possible . |
| 40 | I 'll get it back to the place . |
| 41 | the Lenten 's appeal at the schools that Mrs was supposed to let Miss know so she could get it off to the parents to get the money back so that they bought the scanner . |
| 42 | That meant the tyre would be that amount smaller than the actual wheel , so we had to heat up the tyre to expand it in order to get it on to the rim . |
| 43 | I apologize for the urgency on this , but to get it through to the Department of the Environment it has to be lodged at the beginning of February and then up to then by by March . |
| 44 | erm What happens if erm your boss is n't on the phone and their boss has transferred all their calls to the other phone , the other phone rings as well as the secretaries ring , so you pick it up on your phone , which is R star star 3 , and then you want to get it through to the boss , but when you ring the number it comes through to the other phone . |
| 45 | So think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what |
| 46 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 47 | Next , I had to get it down to the sea . |
| 48 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 49 | ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by . |
| 50 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 51 | ‘ Graham Taylor was trying to get us through to the semi-finals in the best way he knows — rightly or wrongly . |