Example sentences of "to get from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next three-quarters of an hour were taken up with wondering why it was taking us so long to get from the airport to the Consulate , and what genius had decided to place the Consulate some hundreds of miles away . |
| 2 | My father ca n't climb up the narrow ladder from the top floor ; and , even if he could , I know he would n't be able to negotiate the twist you have to make to get from the top of the ladder , round the brickwork of the chimney flues , and into the loft proper . |
| 3 | So there 'd be two er and and then the new motorway would be built er at roughly er ground level as it were er where the existing motorway is , but it would be lower and there would be a a footbridge an ornamental landscaped ! footbridge built over both motorways to get from the viewpoint to St Mark 's Church . |
| 4 | I wonder if he left two minutes in hand , like me , to get from the barrier to a compartment level with the Greenwich exit , or three , or five , or whether he liked to arrive at the very last moment and leave a slight uncertainty in the air . |
| 5 | Her objective is to keep him fit between shows , which in the Yorkshire Dales is not a problem ; the horses at Heyside Farm have to climb a substantial hill just to get from the stableyard to the road . |