Example sentences of "to get [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology . |
| 2 | He blew nearly a pound on a taxi to get them home in comfort , and she seemed glad to hold his hand . |
| 3 | They too have children , with similar needs , but they are allocated much less because , rather than staying on the dole , their parents wished to return to college and get qualifications to get them back into work . |
| 4 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 5 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 6 | The " thief " is the rightful owner of the jewels who wants to get them back in order to free the prisoners in the castle . |
| 7 | Small businesses see it as a boost to get them out of recession while other , larger firms criticised Mr Lamont . |
| 8 | You could spend your entire life praying for the holy souls , to get them out of purgatory . |
| 9 | But a horse that anticipates trouble flattens his ears to get them out of harm 's way . |
| 10 | And it takes a crummy gumshoe to get me out of trouble . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I needed something to get me back in shape . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I bullied you into accepting my terms to get you out of gaol , my only concern was reaching Athens in time for my meeting . ’ |
| 13 | If the forceful approach backfires , then use the participative one to get you out of trouble and to cool the temperature : ‘ My request seems to have made you angry . |
| 14 | Right , well we want to make sure that you can get out to lunch sort of by , that 's running a bit fast that clock , we 'd like to get you out to lunch by about half past twelve otherwise you 'll end up being late do n't you with all the other people |
| 15 | But he was very kind , and brought me all the M & B tablets he could find , with instructions to get you back to bed , and to keep you from other children , and give you M & B every four hours until you were sick , and then try them again very slowly . |
| 16 | Owen : Well Kevin , we are trying , and we 'll be working with your parents on this , to get you back to school and up onto that list up there … see … that 's a list of those who 've returned to school . |
| 17 | Hope to get you back to school on Monday , it seems awful if you 've had a week off and then your not well . |
| 18 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 19 | it 's erm Steve 's mother 's birthday and Gavin 's , they 've got to get him up about midday , one o'clock or something up the school tomorrow she said I have n't even packed yet . |
| 20 | I want to get him up to Inspector as soon as possible . ’ |
| 21 | In 1984 his friend of many years , Liz Taylor , tried to get him back in front of the cameras and to conquer his alcoholism . |
| 22 | Francis pulled strings to get him out of trouble and into his old school , St something 's … ’ |
| 23 | Say a well-preserved sixty-four , highly sophisticated , speaking at least three languages , enough to get him out of trouble in most countries , and with a select if scattered network of friends and colleagues all across the Middle East , to lend him a hand if required . |
| 24 | If Blake could not be exchanged the only alternative was to get him out of prison . |
| 25 | His earliest ally had been Sir Robert Heath , who had promoted Vermuyden 's advancement at court , and had even managed to get him out of prison . |
| 26 | I had to get her out of bed this morning ! |
| 27 | ‘ I want him to get it tomorrow without fail . ’ |
| 28 | Replace it with a plastic one , but make sure you 'll be able to get it through to loft hatch . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co is going to third parties with its SoftBench CASE environment , particularly to get it up on Sun Microsystems Inc workstations . |
| 30 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |