Example sentences of "[noun pl] to get [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
| 2 | I invite er Mr and his supporters to get out of the age of Dickens and into the twentieth century . |
| 3 | I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes . |
| 4 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 5 | As Pauly ( 1990 : p. 41 ) concluded , ‘ regulatory reforms designed to enhance market efficiency and institutional competitiveness … effectively provided distinct incentives for most banks to get out of the business of development finance ’ . |
| 6 | BTR 's headquarters leaves decentralised management teams to get on with the day-to-day job of running each business . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you 've got the jokers who sleep under lorries to get out of the rain . |
| 8 | Henry Kissinger recognized that Romanian co-operation could be useful to the United States in its efforts to get out of the Vietnam War and to open up relations with Mao 's China . |
| 9 | It must come first , and then we can implement it through a sensible reform policy that encourages farmers to get closer to the market , helps them with environmentally friendly farming , does not discriminate against the United Kingdom , helps those in the less-favoured areas and gives early retirement to those who are prepared to restructure their farms . |
| 10 | For many people life today is such a bustling affair with so many things to get through in the day that it is not difficult to forget to be aware of what is around us . |
| 11 | I began to wish Lou Vecchi had had the brains to get out of the country . |
| 12 | Now she 's giving the orders to get out of the washrooms , into the freezing cold , alongside the other troops in this collosal humanitarian operation for the British Army in Bosnia . |
| 13 | ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm . |
| 14 | Valerie Shepard finds out how BP and Unipart are combining forces to get ahead of the competition |
| 15 | Pakistan , January 1991 : Demonstrators call for Western imperialist forces to get out of the Gulf . |
| 16 | It 's almost as if some teachers hold the belief that the best parents are those that are docile and ignorant about the school , leaving the professionals to get on with the job . |
| 17 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 18 | Boys should go to school because they need the skills to get on in the world , because they will spend their lives moving between household and family and the institutions of state and nation . |
| 19 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 20 | A strong young fellow like you does n't take thirty-five minutes to get here from the Kingsbrook bridge . ’ |
| 21 | We 've got about four minutes to get back to the hotel . ’ |
| 22 | It took them almost twenty minutes to get out of the building as they fielded congratulations along the way . |
| 23 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 24 | And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor . |
| 25 | ‘ If the blame is to be laid at anyone 's door , it was simply my over-zealous attempts to get closer to the wildlife . |
| 26 | The two-year-old was snatched to safety by his quick-thinking dad Bob seconds before the off-target skydiver swooped down , frantically yelling at crowds to get out of the way . |
| 27 | Kenneth Grayston introduces an opportunity for graduates to get together at the latest in a series of University concerts . |
| 28 | I am concerned about the absence of provisions for cycle tourists to get out of the city in the most desired directions , viz westwards along the A8 ( trunk road ) , and north-west along the A90 ( also trunk road ) to the Forth Bridge . |
| 29 | Every weekend golfer knows that awful feeling of being within 20 yards of the green in two on a 500-yard hole and taking another three shots to get on to the putting surface . |
| 30 | The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker . |