Example sentences of "[vb infin] to get [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO DAYS LATER , Simon Miles could n't wait to get me behind a wheel . |
| 2 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 3 | What can I do to get you off the phone ? ’ |
| 4 | Put a tried and tested American management development technique together with English county cricket , and you might expect to get something of a cultural googly . |
| 5 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 6 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 7 | I 'd like to get you on a slow boat to China ? |
| 8 | I 'd like to get it to a safe place . |
| 9 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 10 | I can try to get it from the British embassy in Moscow . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If he 's hurt I 'll have to get him to the vet , ’ said Lee . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll have to get it on the loudspeaker when it 's Jazz 's turn to go , ’ Uncle Bean said . |
| 13 | But how did the , what was puzzling a lot of people how did he manage to get it off the ground and into his pocket . |
| 14 | ‘ I particularly do n't want to get it at the moment , ’ he said rather irritably . |
| 15 | But I ca n't afford to get it at the same time anyway cos he he wo n't be down |
| 16 | ‘ If you had this lot in order , it might help to get you to the production stage a bit quicker . ’ |