Example sentences of "get them [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , she was conscious of good fortune in having at last got a council flat in Southwark , and in having good neighbours in the flat across the landing who saw that her children — a boy of nine and a girl of seven — ate their breakfast , and got them off to school . |
| 2 | Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ? |
| 3 | I 've brought out a pack of cards , but when you know you 've got them only to while away the hours , they are as exciting as a stack of washing up . |
| 4 | Well you get them up to stage one fairly quickly , it 's the stage two is n't it . |
| 5 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 6 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 7 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 8 | If there is an outstanding success , he 'll get them on to television and into the national press . |
| 9 | The Rewards and Punishments then , whereby we should keep children in order , are quite of another kind ; and of that force , that when we can get them once to work , the Business , I think , is done , and the Difficulty is over . |
| 10 | They di they did n't want to feed those on strike , they wanted to try and get them back to work did they ? |
| 11 | And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency . |