Example sentences of "[noun] to get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must be careful to lock the car , as youths often steal cars to get home at Fair time . ’ |
| 2 | Terrible drag to get there . |
| 3 | I was glad of the break to get away from the monotony of the orchard with the constant sniping and mortaring . |
| 4 | So , I would expect that to continue and expect erm , revenue to get ahead of last year . |
| 5 | However , we do n't want the horse to get really angry , and to associate having its legs brushed with anger and a need to kick . |
| 6 | Erm now let's go through done the list so Jean to get tomorrow . |
| 7 | The crowd are climbing on each other 's shoulders to get close to them and the hippychicks are dancing acid-trip hand jives in pairs . |
| 8 | MP and JF to get together in the meantime , to see if any short-term improvements are possible . |
| 9 | In her attempt to get closer to her mother she had unknowingly identified with the mother 's way of not explaining anything . |
| 10 | Joyce insisted that he had merely been trying to make his way through the group and had pushed the man in an attempt to get past . |
| 11 | In an attempt to get away from Lord Rothschild 's stereotype , he trawled the country for new names , although it was not until 1980 that people were able to write in to nominate themselves . |
| 12 | The claim that the complex whole of society should be seen as consisting of practices is an attempt to get away from the idea that a social theory can be grounded upon a concept which is ‘ simple ’ and ‘ given ’ . |
| 13 | Gritting her teeth against the acid flow of retorts , Fran hurried on , quickening her pace almost to a run in an attempt to get away , but he just drove along beside her . |
| 14 | Fury at the behaviour of the other , or at what the other symbolizes , can be a desperate attempt to get physically and emotionally closer by sharing the experience of what it is like to be battered . |
| 15 | For years I have had an interest in phenomenology , the attempt to get behind , understand and interpret the way others see the world . |
| 16 | Humberside has a big concentration of chemical and food industries and this is an attempt to get close to the market . |
| 17 | In October the decision was taken to go to the polls in an attempt to get more decisive support for a Labour government : more popular authority and a workable parliamentary position . |
| 18 | A group of families living beside one of the region 's busiest commuter routes are facing a five-mile detour to get home , because they 've been marooned by roadworks.They say it 's making their lives a misery , and want engineers to make them a special short cut to improve things . |
| 19 | The dissemination of information in the event of an incident is dealt with at three levels : the first is the normal system of press notices ; the second is the use of teletext and viewdata ( Ceefax and Prestel ) to get direct to members of the public at their homes or places of work ; the third is the use of Telecom Gold electronic mail to get more technical details to various official bodies , such as water authorities ( Jackson 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 21 | and waited six months to get home , that 's before I got married |
| 22 | For a moment , he considered letting Brompton-Smiley use the Rolls to get home , but then he thought better of it . |
| 23 | We tested the Volvo 460 on two readers who succeeded in the bid to get away . |
| 24 | It makes some sense to argue that an animal needs less computing power to find leaves , which are abundant all around , than to find fruit , which may have to be searched for , or to catch insects , which take active steps to get away . |
| 25 | I would dispute that entirely , and I think it 's very dangerous for arts organizations to get closely involved in matters of detail in artistic control . |
| 26 | A car to get away with . |
| 27 | ‘ It might be worth the price of a new car to get away from you ! ’ she seethed , letting off the handbrake . |
| 28 | The only snag was for a tran public transport conference everybody needed a car to get there . |
| 29 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 30 | Also Parker is a better defender than Jones , if England do have someone else on the right hand side to get forward . |