Example sentences of "to get they [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 The purpose of these breaks is to give learners a chance to catch up with the plot ; to get them to a point where they understand enough of what has happened to make a reasonable stab at following the gist of the next part .
5 We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about .
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 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 .
8 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 .
9 Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front .
10 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 .
11 ‘ We had a bit of a struggle to get them for the wedding , but you can pull various strings to hold things back . ’
12 I 'm just trying to get them at the back did you know ?
13 They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place .
14 Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 Well , we 're still trying to get them through the Police Authority but we are making provision through this budget if we do n't , yeah
17 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 .
18 They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you .
19 CHILDREN at a comprehensive school have been issued with ‘ potty passes ’ — to get them into the toilets .
20 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 .
21 There 's people out there with stories to tell , and we 've got to get them into the bookshops , get something different on the shelves .
22 Now of course with wardrobes that are three foot wide it 's an impossibility to get them up the stairs .
23 Some do , at first , to get them in the mood .
24 Will you be able to get them in the morning ? ’
25 you 're meant to get them in the bin not out of the bin .
26 We need to get them in the league .
27 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 .
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