Example sentences of "get [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 2 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 3 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's Amsterdam , recently announced with pride that they had got themselves into The Guinness Book of Records . |
| 5 | you 've got yourself around the |
| 6 | I thought if I could get one or two put up , it 'd be a miniature Stonehenge ; call it Southmoorhenge and get ourselves on the map . |
| 7 | Get ourselves into the presence of the lord . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope John will work exceptionally hard and get himself on the bench for the QPR game . |
| 9 | Eventually this dear girl gets herself off the cash desk right and where does she find them ? |
| 10 | ‘ How dare you , ’ he continued , ‘ Get yourself into the headmasters office , now . ’ |
| 11 | If the company has cashed your cheque and not dispatched the goods , but has gone into liquidation , then your best bet is to call the official liquidators and get yourself on the list of creditors . |
| 12 | If the company has cashed your cheque and not despatched the goods , but has gone into liquidation , then your best bet is to call the official liquidators and get yourself on the list of creditors . |
| 13 | Get yourself on the course that Paul went on and you 're gon na be getting the kit soon anyway , as part of the network , it wo n't give you stand alone , but you have to have somebody on the network |
| 14 | Get yourself on the course , ring er Sue or somebody , at the training school , tell her your problem |
| 15 | Is it Jeff right , get yourself on the course , it should n't be difficult to get on the course , Paul got on it , without even knowing he was on it . |
| 16 | ‘ When I had my first implant , sir , ’ the soldier confessed , ‘ my old woman said to me , Frinza , he said , get yourself in the army soon as you can , boy . |
| 17 | That 's it ’ — she waved them both away — ‘ get yourselves into the sitting-room , out of this . ’ |
| 18 | GET YOURSELVES OFF THE GROUND UP ! |
| 19 | Right , right , would you like to sort of start getting yourselves into the other room . |
| 20 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 21 | ‘ I have ways of getting myself to the kitchens , ’ said the Bookman . |
| 22 | ‘ Could n't we all get ourselves onto the night shift ? ’ suggested Sam . |
| 23 | ‘ So we made a plan to get ourselves off the ship , ’ Dr Livesey went on . |
| 24 | Rather as one might almost unconsciously adjust the position of a book to get the best light from a bedside lamp without ever really thinking of angles and directions , so must the tiger get himself into the most appropriate location vis-a-vis the three-dimensional world of scents known to both himself and his normal prey . |
| 25 | Twenty-ninth August — the German Army has managed to get itself across the Seine and , according to the news at the Brigade H.Q , 4th Commando Brigade has joined in the pursuit . |
| 26 | If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense . |
| 27 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 28 | Personally , I 'd tell her to get herself down the road in double-quick time . ’ |
| 29 | According to Major-General John Strawson 's A History of the S.A.S. Regiment , its soldiers had to get themselves to the target ‘ by any means from submarine to caique ’ . |
| 30 | Some people will resort to games in order to get themselves off the hook or to put down another person . |