Example sentences of "[noun sg] to get at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cook needs room to get at the cooker , sink and cupboards without hindrance and to move around the kitchen comfortably . |
| 2 | ‘ If it 's so easy for Rain Morgan of the Daily Post to get at the truth , it 's a secret which ca n't be kept . ’ |
| 3 | The irony is primarily at the expense of Mrs Moreen ( a lady less refined than she would like to appear ) , and secondarily at the expense of Pemberton ( whom we smile at and with over his impotence to get at the information he wants ) . |
| 4 | Where as he bought these machines and cleared up the rubbish to get at the slate . |
| 5 | As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult . |
| 6 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You 'll probably have to unscrew the joint to get at the basin of the U-bend . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since that would mean that the World Bank would talk less to governments , one of the Treasury 's main reasons for bullying the IFC is in order to get at the Bank . |
| 11 | There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard . |
| 12 | According to the consortium proposing the mine , digging an open pit is the only way to get at the tungsten , which is embedded as a wolframite ( iron manganese tungstenate ) in a deposit of granite . |