Example sentences of "[adv] to get at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goldfinches pecked neatly and precisely : The snow buntings burrowed energetically , discarding dead stalks and leaves with a quick flick of the head ; then dug deeper to get at the hidden seeds , their busy movements leaving visible impressions . |
| 2 | It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics . |
| 3 | ‘ Buzzing , ’ he replied , turning the couchette over to get at the narrow bed . |
| 4 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 5 | Consuelo had taken them out to get at the anti-inflammatory tablets for the patient with the sprained ankle . |
| 6 | Johnson ( 1982 , p. 213 ) observes that MPs ‘ may attempt ingeniously to get at the activities of governmental bodies through the questioning of Ministers , but … it is not something attempted very regularly and , when it is , the attack focuses on policy and resources rather than on particular decisions ’ . |
| 7 | The bones are of antelopes , gazelles , hippopotami , pigs and other animals , and many have been smashed , presumably to get at the nourishing marrow ; some even show marks of cuts , inflicted by a stone tool when the bone was still fresh . |
| 8 | This kind of thing , what has been called the ‘ roving anecdote ’ , makes it easy to recognize the tyrannical or other type , hard to get at the truth about an individual . |