Example sentences of "get us back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 2 | I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division . |
| 3 | When Silver et al talked of ‘ securing the long term future of Leeds ’ I envisaged that as meaning we have to bite the bullet a little now , but once the ground has been finished — the revenue from the Euro champs will get us back on an even keel ( maybe into the black ) . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was doing a three-point-turn manoeuvre to get us back onto the road when he woke up , lifted his hat and mumbled : ‘ Where are we ? ’ |
| 7 | That is enough to get us back into the top flight . |