Example sentences of "to get [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 2 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 3 | Through the Princes ' Trust in the month we actually give grants to something like twenty people , just to get them off the street , because there was nowhere else they could turn to . |
| 4 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 5 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 6 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 7 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 8 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 9 | He gained his school colours for rugger and was unlucky not to get them for the Field Game and the Wall Game — another game confined to Eton . |
| 10 | ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ? |
| 12 | Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages . |
| 13 | ‘ But it became obvious that we were n't posing enough of a threat to get them through the bottle neck and as a result they dived and went hell-for-leather back into Scapa Flow . |
| 14 | To get them through the Christmas crisis , staff in London were instructed to send down a variety of commercial patterns and magazines which Laura adapted herself . |
| 15 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 16 | Some do , at first , to get them in the mood . |
| 17 | Will you be able to get them in the morning ? ’ |
| 18 | you 're meant to get them in the bin not out of the bin . |
| 19 | We need to get them in the league . |
| 20 | Well , okay , now it it may be that one of the things that that relates to again is the meeting that we talked about , erm and the need to get them around the table and begin to talk about those sort of things . |
| 21 | The Minister is naturally anxious to get me off the subject of the ’ Save our Schools ’ campaign , the No Turning Back group and his views on comprehensive education . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy . |
| 23 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 24 | To get me into the car so I let her come . |
| 25 | ‘ I find analysis essential to get me through the day . |
| 26 | ‘ Got some new tablets to get me through the Season supposed to be revolutionary — solve all problems . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 28 | He said to me , ‘ Willie , just put a club in my hand that 's going to get me on the green . |
| 29 | ‘ She seemed pretty keen to get me on the team , ’ I said . |
| 30 | I also find that this precaution usually provides enough yarn to get me to the end of the row . |