Example sentences of "to get [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be that it 's just something that Bob is allergic to , but it had better be investigated and some sample testing done in case we need to get on to the manufacturers . |
| 2 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |
| 3 | If there was trouble he 'd have to spend the rest of the day putting it down and would n't be able to get on with the arms search at all . |
| 4 | One minute he was full of longing to get on with the things that swam into his mind : sorting his stamps , cleaning his sports gear , starting his diary , writing his play . |
| 5 | ‘ We are interested in serious-minded people who want to get down to the ins and outs of driving a steam locomotive — filth , heat , sweat and all . ’ |
| 6 | This certainly overstates the situation , but there is no doubt that party leaders in Parliament like to keep a free ( and vague ) policy hand , and in their speeches and campaigning around election time they are more likely to attack opponents and invoke positive symbols than to get down to the specifics of their own party programmes . |
| 7 | Those who foresaw the inevitability of this could take one of three ways out : commit suicide like the Itelmens ; resist and fight like the Chukchis ; or learn to get along with the newcomers . |
| 8 | I think we 've go I think we 've got to get through to the members actually that together as a , we 're gon na be a cohesive force for the benefit of the members . |
| 9 | Her great ability was to get through to the outcasts of society — the drunks , the crazed , the depressed . |
| 10 | The waif-like screen star , who in recent years has devoted her energies to helping the world 's starving children , has just pleaded for a week of peace in Bosnia to enable food to get through to the children there . |
| 11 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 12 | On Sunday we rose early and after a good breakfast were eager to get out on the hills . |
| 13 | Coleman 's job was to get out on the streets and talk to people , to come back with a feel for what the bombing had achieved . |
| 14 | Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us . |
| 15 | Twelve hundred hours and Sheriff Clive Powell prepares to get out onto the streets … |
| 16 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 17 | Several of the larger equipment companies have a mail order service , which is useful if you are unable to get out to the shops . |
| 18 | Kate was Mary 's tutor and she encouraged Mary to clarify what she wanted to get out of the videos and work through questions to identify issues which Mary could then pursue . |
| 19 | Why d' you think they did n't want to get out of the trenches ? ’ |
| 20 | Because you have to get out of the premises of the people when they lock up . |
| 21 | Now she 's giving the orders to get out of the washrooms , into the freezing cold , alongside the other troops in this collosal humanitarian operation for the British Army in Bosnia . |
| 22 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 23 | The army wanted to get out of the trees . |
| 24 | A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away . |
| 25 | The Scots include six full caps against the visitors ' four , and for four of the forwards , Martin Scott , Chris Gray , David McIvor , playing at No8 , and Ian Smith , the match , sponsored by Total Oil Marine International , provides them with the opportunity to get back into the selectors ' good books . |
| 26 | The Scots include six full caps against the visitors ' four , and for four of the forwards , Martin Scott , Chris Gray , David McIvor , playing at No8 , and Ian Smith , the match , sponsored by Total Oil Marine International , provides them with the opportunity to get back into the selectors ' good books . |
| 27 | The PGL had a run of four successive titles broken by the NIBA last year and our hoping to get back on the rails in Dublin next month . |
| 28 | Thankfully , the week after we whooped Chelsea to get back on the rails to that now famous title finale ( famous for us anyhow — right ? ) : - ) . |
| 29 | After losing 83–6 to Blaydon and 42–3 to Horden in recent weeks , the injuries are not helping to get back on the rails in time for their final two league matches this month against Sunderland and Mowden Park . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure they will be only too intent to get back on the rails , ’ he observed . |