Example sentences of "get [adv prt] to their [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube .
2 Unless they get back to their winning ways Rovers could even miss the play-offs .
3 When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places .
4 Only by getting back to their male roots can these over-complex men become better lovers , fathers and friends .
5 Few of them got back to their own country .
6 The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business .
7 During this period it is essential that all the staff 's normal duties are covered for them , nothing is more likely to prevent successful training than constant telephone interruptions and the need for the staff to get back to their normal work .
8 ‘ It would need an increase of 100 per cent in the ewe premiums for the farmers to get back to their previous levels of income at the beginning of the 1980s . ’
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