Example sentences of "[to-vb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ought to haff got to my tree by now , ’ she told herself presently , in her lilting Welsh voice . |
| 2 | He will not be allowed to try getting into the bath until he is capable of making all the necessary movements with full control , and no increase in his spasticity . |
| 3 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |
| 4 | to try get all that mud off it |
| 5 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 6 | Gedanken remembered the tunnel along which she had to pass to get to the Imaginary Universes Laboratory . |
| 7 | I loved working with Dana , and yet as time went by and we produced more and more collaborative poems I began to long to get my own poetic and personal identities back . |
| 8 | He really has had to struggle to get this project under way . |
| 9 | Ants stumble into the pit by accident and , because it is constructed of friable soil or sand and has steep sides , they have to struggle to get out . |
| 10 | Officers in the field did on occasion have to struggle to get through to an official 's home number . |
| 11 | He told them , so they alleged , that she was ‘ kinky ’ and was likely to struggle to get ‘ turned on . ’ |
| 12 | It 's now 1057 , and the group has arrived in Shrewsbury.They have to struggle to get the wheelchairs off the train … and then cross the platform ready to catch the service to Hereford.At ten past eleven , we board the Hereford train.At 11:50 we arrive back in Leominster : |
| 13 | What formula are we going to find to get the ordinary people of Ulster to vote on real issues which concern them and not on the entrenched sectarian issues into which we are brainwashed . |
| 14 | The point is you need to appear to get better . |
| 15 | You get an element of pain in our lyrics and I do n't believe we have to scream to get that across . ’ |
| 16 | Clearly , income is an important variable in attempting to satisfy this goal ; it is certainly what most people tell you they come to work to get , even though the number of people actually solely motivated by it is very small . |
| 17 | You 've to work to get that fortnight . |
| 18 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 19 | But I decided to force myself to try to get on with her . |
| 20 | By the time his ready smile reached us we were glad to see him and retreated to try to get warm and ask a few questions . |
| 21 | Still , it sobered us a bit , and after we had taken several more shots we decided that we needed some sleep , to try to get our minds back in gear . |
| 22 | We were in the forest to try to get less deep snow , he was told ; we were going to a campsite that Odd-Knut had prepared . |
| 23 | A big effort was made in the late 1980s to try to get just about everyone over 15 to read and write , using more than 20,000 volunteer teachers , 14,000 of them women . |
| 24 | He is expected to use his address to the Diet ( parliament ) during his visit — the first by a Soviet head of state — to try to get a commitment from both the Japanese government and its businessmen to back a hoary old proposal : the formation of an economic group among the countries surrounding the Japan Sea , that is , the Soviet Union , the two Koreas and Japan . |
| 25 | But there is every reason to try to get as much support for change as possible . |
| 26 | ‘ Would you like me to try to get in touch with her ? ’ |
| 27 | He was aware , even as he spoke , that she would think he was lying , putting on his ‘ sincere ’ act to try to get round her . |
| 28 | Both sides had an incentive , when negotiating , to link God to their endeavours , and both fell out of godliness fairly quickly once the talks broke up : North desperate to eat and to get more tape for ‘ the freakin' machine ’ , the Iranians telephoning round to try to get call-girls to come out to their hotel . |
| 29 | Presumably his companion had turned back to try to get help . |
| 30 | The second essential is to try to get the economy into some kind of shape . |