Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] get [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you like hanging out washing rather than drying it in the bowels of an expensive machine , you will need to tuck away a line and make a dry path to get to and from it . |
| 2 | And so erm the , the experience in w the work experience I get now I want to be with a , a definite view to get to , get in training |
| 3 | You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat . |
| 4 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 5 | A hung parlian A hung parliament To get into parliament in the house of commons you 've got to have a thirty percent majority . |
| 6 | The colourful magazine is a one-off idea to get across the party 's policies on a range of issues affecting women . |
| 7 | Jesus , that 's a funny way to get to Galway City . |
| 8 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 9 | But trust a trained engineer to get to the root of the problem at a glance . |
| 10 | A year ago a male fox got into my hen house and killed the lot . |
| 11 | She discovered she was a split second too late in making a hurried scramble to get off the bed , because , in the next instant , Naylor was there with her , pinning her down with his body . |
| 12 | The need for government controls to prevent the marketing of dangerous medicines is obvious — the example of thalidomide indicates what can happen when inadvertently a dangerous drug gets through the net . |
| 13 | ‘ Oi vey , in the country it 's a real tzuriss getting from village to village . |
| 14 | And that is a er an A P I which is very similar in approach to O D B C in that it enables you using a consistent interface to get at any data source within the organization . |
| 15 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 16 | Like 1-2-3 , SuperCalc offers icons as a quick means to get at frequently used facilities . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |
| 18 | ‘ I had a hard time getting through Ulysses , ’ I responded as lightly as I could . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a great opportunity to get in there ahead of the need , which is what we always try to do , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Sally the lass who 's taken over the buying for precision bearings , is a great lass got on great with her , and Richard . |
| 21 | Now would be a great time to get off my screen and go back to Microsoft . |
| 22 | That farm 's just like a weekend in Palm Springs — a great place to get in shape . |
| 23 | Then there was a long drive to get to the house . |
| 24 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 25 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 26 | The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program . |
| 27 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
| 28 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 29 | It took me quite a long time to get over it . |
| 30 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |