Example sentences of "get at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
2 | Her lips stretched in a rictus smile , a satisfied look on her face , like that of a child who 's got at the strawberries and cream , and Gómez was the cause of it . |
3 | You can have it , they 're talking about the farm that they 've got at the School |
4 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
5 | There was also " … a considerable quantity of small ore which was got at the beginning of the work and can not be weighed until stamped or broken by an Engine and washed for which purpose they are going to erect one to go be water with all speed and were disstressed for some sycamore wood for the water wheel . " |
6 | Okay , now , what you should have in front of you , is a recipe for successful learning , because what you 've got at the top , right , what you 've got at the top is something that you 've learnt , and you think you 're pretty good at it , and what you 've got in the middle is , how you got to be good at it , and what you 've got at the end , is what you gain from having it . |
7 | Okay , now , what you should have in front of you , is a recipe for successful learning , because what you 've got at the top , right , what you 've got at the top is something that you 've learnt , and you think you 're pretty good at it , and what you 've got in the middle is , how you got to be good at it , and what you 've got at the end , is what you gain from having it . |
8 | but it 's also linked , I mean the other thing that I 've got at the back of my mind , is a kind of nightmare , is that when we were talking about the Festival around about March that you know , we spoke to Ingy er you know as a group and then that was all fine and we kept er going along and then , and then there was that sort of dreadful phone call I had from Linda along the lines as I 'm not sure if I 've got any describers |
9 | Got at the back of the gallery that is . |
10 | How high is the one we 've got at the back ? |
11 | what is that room that he 's got at the back ? |
12 | Okay , now , what you should have in front of you , is a recipe for successful learning , because what you 've got at the top , right , what you 've got at the top is something that you 've learnt , and you think you 're pretty good at it , and what you 've got in the middle is , how you got to be good at it , and what you 've got at the end , is what you gain from having it . |
13 | ‘ Just one of the many minor niggling problems we 've got at the moment is that there 's no hot water in the kitchen , ’ said Pat . |
14 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
15 | Well , all that , all we 've got at the moment Alan is a list of things that we feel should be in there |
16 | Erm I think that Vince has raised of very personal questions that we have ask about this erm the question of local accountability of the health authority board that will be created by this the to service this new joint health authority , would in fact , be the size of the existing one for West Essex and we would ha , have only a third of the representation that we currently have the whole of West Essex we 'll only have two non- executive members on the health authority board and I do n't think that that is terribly accountable but certainly a considerable reduction on what we 've got at the moment . |
17 | I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that . |
18 | And perhaps the biggest draw back we 've got at the moment that to ge , become a chartered engi engineer you 've got ta have a degree ! |
19 | ‘ But he 's all we 've got at the moment . ’ |
20 | So that 's one of the few options you 've got at the moment . |
21 | That 's National Savings , and to my mind the only good issue they 've got at the moment , and er once you get with index-linked certificates , they were originally the granny bonds that were launched er in the early er late seventies , early eighties . |
22 | Now just give you an example of the numbers of schemes we 've got at the moment , just on my area , my old area from West Bridgford , covering Newark , there 's two hundred and twenty Neighbourhood Watch schemes . |
23 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
24 | got at the moment . |
25 | And any word-of-mouth 'd be better than what we 've got at the moment . |
26 | This time of the year is the open season for demonstrations but we 're beginning to wonder if someone is co-ordinating the restlessness we 've got at the moment . |
27 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
28 | Now , would n't necessarily suggesting that the existing settlement would have to sustain all of the addition given only what it 's got at the moment . |
29 | ‘ The trousers is about all we 've got at the moment . |
30 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |