Example sentences of "[adj] to get [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean was not prepared to get into a wrangle with Wheeler about a diocesan servant . |
| 2 | All concerned should be cross-examined to get to the bottom of the whole sordid affair . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you found anything , Sergeant ? ’ she asked , pitching her voice high to get over the wind . |
| 4 | For example , the cost of ramps and other modifications to enable a paraplegic to get about the house may even reduce the capital value of the house . |
| 5 | Why do you think it is that erm that the reputation of the flats has been er I suppose gone off and I mean early on back in the early seventies , erm the flats were quite an attractive place to come to , it was n't even that easy to get on the flats . |
| 6 | It is very easy to get into a muddle with your files , especially when you are busy or need to use several disks to store them . |
| 7 | It is not always easy to get into the New Zealand landscape . |
| 8 | And with many rights of way and good marked trails it is also easy to get into the heart of the countryside . |
| 9 | I should think it was about ten , fifteen years later , and it was so easy to get into the country . |
| 10 | It is very easy to get into the habit of making all of your turns to the left and a point will be reached where you will be very reluctant to turn right . |
| 11 | Mhm do you have do you have a lo I mean is it is it easy to get to in touch say you want to in an emergency , to get in touch with anyone phone , is it is it easy to get to a phone ? |
| 12 | A three year old is comparatively weak and easy to get to the bottom of , whereas a four or five year old will be able to put up more of a resistance ( if that is in his nature ) . |
| 13 | It 's impossible to get through the jungle to Saigon from here . " |
| 14 | The new tactic means their tanks would not only be hard to hit , but British and American tanks would find it virtually impossible to get through the minefields . |
| 15 | You could open the doors but it was impossible to get into the car . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , as I know from personal experience it 's almost impossible to get to the rear of this house from the front when the door at the end of the passageway between the garage and the house wall is locked . |
| 17 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 18 | It proved impossible to get within a factor of 10 of the sustainable production flow of 75 litres per second of hot water . |
| 19 | The boy told him that he had got a place in a hostel , but that he would be lucky to get into a place like that if it was his first night . |
| 20 | We motored on a further thirty miles and when the road ended were lucky to get on a goods train with our precious stock of food . |
| 21 | It knows that Channel 5 faces such formidable technical and financial obstacles that it will be lucky to get on the air at all . |
| 22 | ‘ Our coach was caught in the centre of an enormous traffic jam , and it looked as if we would be lucky to get to the station only an hour or so behind schedule . |
| 23 | so embedded now in English cricket folklore : the lost teeth at Taunton in '74 when Andy Roberts bounced him ( ‘ my first big break ’ ) , his dark months of Test captaincy , Headingley '81 , when he decided to have some fun and whacked 149 not out ( ‘ soon the depression lifted ’ ) , Hollywood ( ‘ nice little diversion ’ ) , the accusations of misbehaviour off the field ( ‘ ridiculous ’ , ‘ farcical ’ , ‘ part of the learning process ’ ) , thoughts on the World Cup ( ‘ Pakistan were lucky to get to the final ’ ) , the Somerset break-up . |
| 24 | I was just wondering how on earth your supposed to get to the M one heading towards er Bramford I mean |
| 25 | I thought you were definitely gon na show me up today and say , how the hell am I supposed to get into the garage ? |
| 26 | ‘ How are you supposed to get up the stairs , then ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps he 's too ill to get to a telephone , ’ said Mervyn in a satisfied tone-'that 's what it is . ’ |
| 28 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 29 | There was disappointment , however , as it became clear that none of the 10 water companies are likely to get into the FTSE index of the hundred biggest companies . |
| 30 | If I pick and choose at this stage , I 'm not likely to get off the ground . |