Example sentences of "[noun pl] to get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 2 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 3 | Gary Smith : ‘ You learn to pull the right triggers , push the key words to get the money . |
| 4 | Many readers are hindered by inaudibly ‘ pronouncing ’ each word rather than scanning a group of words to get the meaning of a sentence and rapid reading classes can be helpful in correcting this deficiency . |
| 5 | One year 's notice was given to enable schools to get the records into order . |
| 6 | ‘ The defence ministries had to bend their ears to get the work done … |
| 7 | The fact you box him round the ears to get the half point , true I think . |
| 8 | Concerned when turnover did not match the grandiose scale of the shop , Bertelsen tried various tactics to get the merchandise moving , including putting on an early sale . |
| 9 | That leaves Gerhard Schröder , the bustling premier of Lower Saxony ( who would break noses to get the job ) , Rudolf Scharping , the Rhineland-Palatinate premier ( who hides his ambition better ) , and Renate Schmidt , the Social Democratic leader in Bavaria ( who would start with a strong base in a party committed to 50% representation for women ) . |
| 10 | It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , well , ’ he shrugged , rubbing his eyes to get the sleep out of them . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want kids to get the wrong idea from that song . |
| 13 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 14 | has got to remember that a duty was put upon the County Councils of Great Britain in nineteen sixty eight to provide sites for gipsies , and here were are in nineteen ninety one — that 's damn near thirty years further on , and we 're still looking for sites to get the county designated . |
| 15 | The inside of two large lorries had been converted into a special effects roadshow that allows visitors to get the sound , sight , taste , smell and feel of Guinness — and win prizes as they go . |
| 16 | The ploughs and gritters do their best , of course , but it 's not at all uncommon for the elements to get the better of them for a little while . |
| 17 | Mark and cut the shape on a piece of cardboard , transfer on to the front of the tile , and using a few downward strokes to get the cut started , saw out the shape . |
| 18 | ‘ Hunterston pulled out all the stops to get the spare transformer readied for shipment , a section of the fence was removed to give easy access for the low-loader , and the transformer was moved to the docks at Ardrossan and loaded on to the Fisher . |
| 19 | Hence RMC spent almost £1m with Waterers to get the desired effect at its headquarters at Thorpe Park and Esso 's Leatherhead headquarters was adorned with lavish landscaping . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ When so many are tightening their belts to get the country out of recession , this pay rise in inappropriate . |
| 21 | It is possible to fit the dual circuit systems as used on later vehicles if you use the brake pipes as fitted to the later models to get the circuitry correct . |
| 22 | Some parents may already use a variation of this procedure by sending children to their rooms , but this is usually for long periods to get the children out of their way . |
| 23 | So that these people go to the urban areas to get the jobs , they 're not trained erm , for these jobs right and as a result , these wages rates still , may still be maintained despite the fact there are lots of people who are quite happy to take wages erm , in , take up jobs in the urban sectors , it 's the fact that sort of , employers do n't want them , because they do n't have the requisite skills . |
| 24 | the Lenten 's appeal at the schools that Mrs was supposed to let Miss know so she could get it off to the parents to get the money back so that they bought the scanner . |
| 25 | The appeal at the school that Mrs was supposed to have let Miss White know so she could send it off to the parents to get the money back scanner |
| 26 | This is the same set of attitudes which causes people to clear out the unwanted gear out of their lofts to send to Ethiopia rather than enabling the Ethiopians to get the best training possible as irrigation engineers , doctors and agricultural scientists and economists . |
| 27 | Next came the problem of licences to get the instruments out of Britain and into Iraq . |
| 28 | At first you may need several trials to get the right amount of heating from the bulb . |
| 29 | She battled for weeks to get the compound manager to fix the leak . |
| 30 | They were asked to use their influence with local officials to get the water supply re-connected to the £1 million villa rented by Mona Bauwens . |