Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] to get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was five years older than Minton and watched critically as Minton suppressed his intelligence in order to get on with his Circus which sometimes included boys of adolescent mentality . |
| 2 | Lack of mobility may mean that older people with disabilities have to incur the cost of private transport in order to get about . |
| 3 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 4 | For a moment or two she toyed with the idea of making some excuse in order to get out of what would be an embarrassing situation . |
| 5 | Forfeiting an extra hour in bed to get up and muck out while it is still pitch dark or traipsing through muddy fields on bitterly cold days to break the ice on the water trough can take its toll on the keenest of owners . |
| 6 | They just do n't actually have that information , a lot of small local groups , and I think maybe the C B S could work with the Engineers department in future years and try to get to those groups , because I 'm sure a lot of them , actually if they were given the opportunity in time to get in , that , that you might have a lot of people applying for flag and whatever than you do now . |
| 7 | In 1984 there was considerable publicity concerning a woman who gouged out her eye and another who slashed her breast in order to get out of her cell for a few minutes . |
| 8 | This forced him to increase his step length , to raise his leading leg in order to get out of the hole he had created . |
| 9 | Mother I do n't need — the one who brought me up cost a lot in therapy to get over . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , her heart sank at the thought of spending an evening with him in his present state of mind , and she was tempted to invent a sore throat in order to get out of it . |
| 11 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |