Example sentences of "[vb base] to get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually , the study points out , the creditors expect to get the lion 's share of any debt relief . |
| 2 | Perhaps they expect to get the club services free of charge . |
| 3 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 4 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 5 | I just want to get the looks right ’ . |
| 6 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 7 | If you want to get the most out of life you need to maintain a certain level of muscular stamina . |
| 8 | I want to get the now constantly recurring image or memory of the scraggy sheep huddled together at night in the bus shelter off the top of my mind : it is disconcerting to be writing about one thing and yet be presented while doing so with quite another set of pictures . |
| 9 | ‘ We must if we want to get the girl back . ’ |
| 10 | The correlation between such unlikely indicators and target markets was not discovered by accident , and marketers who want to get the most out of the results of the 1991 census , which will shortly become available , should be thinking about how they will do it now . |
| 11 | As a Lotus user , you obviously want to get the most from your software . |
| 12 | ‘ If you ca n't get it , come down to what I want to get the fight on . |
| 13 | If you want to get the boss 's ear it may mean excluding other people from the conversation , although they are still present . |
| 14 | Keegan said : ‘ We now have a clearer picture of where we are going and we want to get the squad down to a manageable size . |
| 15 | So issuers who want to get the most for selling their shares tend to prefer book-building , even though fees are higher . |
| 16 | I use water resistant PVA adhesive , as end-grain gluing is involved and you want to get the best bond possible . |
| 17 | This does n't mean you can relax — not if you want to get the most out of your tutorials . |
| 18 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 19 | Yeah they 're accepted and the the language developing is developing more quickly than that so they want to get the stuff into dictionaries |
| 20 | Well the the situation is also that it 's confusing in terms of Apex , Supersavers , Savers , Nonsavers er you ca n't travel on these trains at certain times , you 've got to plan your journey three months ahead if you want to get the maximum savings and all the rest of it . |
| 21 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 22 | I want to get the coins . ’ |
| 23 | But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the |
| 24 | You want , want to get the same amount , I mean we 've got a certain amount of water coming through that pipe , |
| 25 | I want to get the right sort of thing for you . |
| 26 | ‘ Julius , I want to get the bus , ’ she said with some annoyance . |
| 27 | On Sunday in his General Secretary 's address , John Edmunds reminded everyone in the labour movement that we need to , need to express our arguments simply if we want to get the message across . |
| 28 | I just want to get the concept of |
| 29 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 30 | Now okay , I know what you mean by saying yes , you want to get the higher price everywhere . |