Example sentences of "[noun sg] to get [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | News At Ten was the first news programme to get in the ratings Top Ten , the first to employ two newsreaders ( Alistair Burnett and Andrew Gardner on the first edition ) , and the first to make use of foreign reports and the catchphrase ‘ Brent Sadler , News At Ten , Dagenham ’ . |
| 2 | The fire was discovered at 3 a.m. by a master working late , and together with two boys — one of whom climbed a waterspout to get to the juniors ' bedroom via the roof and the other operated a hand-pump in dense smoke — managed to raise the alarm . |
| 3 | As well as being asked how often they commit illegal acts , respondents are generally asked details of their social characteristics , social class , race and so on , in an attempt to get round the biases in official criminal statistics . |
| 4 | In particular , during the discrimination trials , the children ‘ dutifully ’ followed the example set by the model , even when she took an indirect route to the boxes , which more than doubled the distance to be travelled and ‘ was clearly incompatible with the subjects ’ eagerness to get to the containers ' . |
| 5 | Some of these creatures were almost flying in their desire to get to the nomes . |
| 6 | Trust Spittals not to miss a chance to get into the papers , thought Dexter with a snort . |
| 7 | penny to get in the pictures , and a penny |
| 8 | He does n't have to pass our door to get the bus stop , he does n't have to pass our door to get to the schools |
| 9 | I was too big a man to get through the caves , but I listened hard and was sure I heard something . |
| 10 | His willingness to get into the crowds earned points . |
| 11 | as an excuse to get in the bedrooms |
| 12 | Truant children often use their bus or lunch money to get into the centres . |
| 13 | By the time he reached home his only aim was to get the van into the garage and find the strength to get up the stairs and to bed . |
| 14 | From her he seemed to draw sufficient strength to get through the days until the simple funeral was over . |
| 15 | At some point , you will probably have to write out your own version of other people 's ideas in the form of paraphrase or summary embedded in your own work ; so it could be argued that you should do the rewriting from the outset , as you take your notes , in an effort to get at the ideas behind the words rather than just repeating the words themselves . |
| 16 | He was pretty confident about his ability to get into the rooms in the first place , Loretta noted . |
| 17 | And of course you really , in order to get at the origins of history , you 've really got to go back to the , to the Greeks . |
| 18 | So the quickest way to get to the woods , if you were part of the Martin household , was to enter the orchard farthest from the house and climb over the vine-clad wall at its end . |
| 19 | ‘ There is no normal way to get into the arms trade ’ , says Mohammed . |
| 20 | Jim Davidson sent six bottles of champagne with a card saying , ‘ What a way to get into the papers , ’ and one evening I received the largest basket of poinsettias I 've ever seen , totally stunning , with a card saying , ‘ Thinking of you — lots of love , Elton . ’ |
| 21 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 22 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |