Example sentences of "can get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a ) Only a small proportion of the sun 's UV rays can penetrate the ozone layer in the stratosphere. b ) Some CFCs destroy ozone making a hole and also thinning the ozone layer so large amounts of UV radiation can get through to the Earth . |
| 2 | Is Jenny Hubbell ( Marsha Mason ) the only person who can get through to Kevin ? |
| 3 | I 'm almost certain that 's what 's doing it to you so let's see if we can get through to it with that , |
| 4 | ‘ If we can get through to July 1 we will be okay , but at the moment people ( other clubs ) are sitting around like vultures waiting to pick up the pieces , ’ added Beller . |
| 5 | But it 's just worth bearing in mind that erm , as long as the senior people are quite comfortable they can get through to , to us if they need to , that they 're not bound by the normal fax routine or whatever . |
| 6 | According to him , they have debates with each other about how much free grub they can get through without having to yield their bodies in return . |
| 7 | We have made sure that we get on with as much as we can get through in our help for Iraq through UNHCR , but there is one man — and one man only — who stands in the dock for the denial of resources to the northern Iraqi people , and that is Saddam Hussein . |
| 8 | It makes far more sense to do two for the first day , then you can judge how many you can get through in a day from those two . |
| 9 | And I can get round to doing that this week , I started trying on Friday but most of them were of course hitting the road . |
| 10 | ‘ If you just clear your little bits and pieces off the floor I can get round with the vacuum . ’ |
| 11 | A manager has to create an environment in which a new act can get on with their music as free as possible of worry about business . |
| 12 | Claiming that health workers ' fears were being overcome and that there was now a much better understanding of the plans , Mr Clarke said : ‘ There are volunteers all over the service waiting for Parliament to approve these provisions so we can get on with it from next summer onwards . ’ |
| 13 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 14 | She 's got the troops and it 's right up her street , she can get on with anyone . ’ |
| 15 | I can get on with Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 16 | It 's only when you 've put yourself second and the message first that you can get on with the business of communication . |
| 17 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 18 | Taking the argument to its conclusion , Hong Kong has delegated this necessary but tedious function to a small group of expat Brits , so that everybody else can get on with making money . |
| 19 | Elsa and Vernon can get on with checking the endocrine levels this morning , and that will leave young Isaacs to monitor today 's stuff . |
| 20 | Not being in loco parentis he can get on with his own job , and expect parents to do theirs . |
| 21 | He/she may well select someone whom they feel they can get on with . |
| 22 | An ill-informed perception of schools suggests that they need to be ‘ protected ’ from the ‘ real ’ and harsh decisions involved in administering employment legislation , school meals , plant and buildings : ‘ they do not understand what we do , the services we undertake on their behalf , in order that they can get on with teaching the children . ’ |
| 23 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 24 | Claire Bartel ( Sciorra ) has just had her second baby and needs a nanny so she can get on with her hobby of building a greenhouse . |
| 25 | ‘ It will close a terrible chapter of history and we can get on with better things . ’ |
| 26 | Thankfully the old saw that ‘ you ca n't call yourselves world champions until you 've beaten the Boks ’ has been laid to rest and now , politics allowing , the South African game can get on with the long overdue task of putting its own house — in particular its over-powerful domestic unions — in order . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's a few teachers who you can get on with and talk to . |
| 28 | ‘ I think I can get on with anybody , ’ he says . |
| 29 | And if you have once demonstrated you skill at copying chairs , you can get on with meeting all the requests you will surely have from family and friends . |
| 30 | Now we can get on with more important things . |