Example sentences of "get at [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 2 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 3 | You tend to withdraw into yourself if you feel got at by the world , especially if you have experienced a rejection in past months . |
| 4 | Most of the functions you need are easy to get at via the toolbar at the top of the screen , including Open , Save and Print commands . |
| 5 | They said , ‘ Yes , we know that , but it 's easier to get at from the front . ’ |