Example sentences of "to get their [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaigning for carriage of cycles on public transport ( we do n't like people having to use cars to get their bikes into the countryside ! ) ; |
| 2 | Natural selection obviously favours the most successful caterpillars , and these are the ones that hatch out early enough to get their jaws into the young , tender , comparatively tannin-free leaves . |
| 3 | To get their sows in the mating mood , pig breeders spray a manufactured porcine pheromone — chemically very similar to the human type — on their boars . |
| 4 | It was a it was a competition between the carters to get their horses into the best condition . |
| 5 | By 6.00 am everybody had assembled to get their orders for the day . |
| 6 | They are also desperate to get their pictures in the paper . |
| 7 | We had rehearsals in the morning , and by lunch-time people were already coming across the river to get their places for the play . |
| 8 | The textbooks may have moved on , but it 's a fair bet that people at large remain equally unable to get their heads round the idea that ‘ mind ’ is a product of the ordinary stuff of the brain , rather than a distinct quality . |
| 9 | I mention this cos it could be THE way for list members to get their tickets from the LUFC ticket office , and avoid all that hopeless phoning . |
| 10 | The Japanese built railways to get their troops to the front , requisitioned supplies , and brooked no opposition to what was dictated by the exigencies of the war . |
| 11 | The ballot becomes the test of the candidates ' success , and it involves a contest — for example , a contest between the party machines to get their voters to the polls . |
| 12 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 13 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 14 | Hundreds of parents yesterday slept outside Toys R Us stores in Swansea and Bristol in a desperate bid to get their hands on the island . |
| 15 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 16 | Blind children at a college in Worcester ca n't wait to get their hands on the latest batch of adventure stories , translated into braille by computor . |
| 17 | LINFIELD fans anxious to get their hands on the club 's new-look kit will have to wait . |
| 18 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 19 | No team has really dominated since 1976 but now-defunct clubs Leytonstone & Ilford , Walthamstow Avenue and Dagenham all managed to get their names on the trophy before losing their identity . |
| 20 | She suggests that the people studied by Ellis were mainly those who were merely powerful or influential enough to get their names in the Dictionary of National Biography , rather than necessarily being intellectually creative . |
| 21 | His world was not one where people fought to get their names in the papers . |
| 22 | ‘ All that mob , they 're just out to get their names in the papers and make millions off human desperation with vitamin cures . |