Example sentences of "to get [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 2 | It is puzzling why the C&G 's managing director Andrew Longhurst feels he needs to pay Guardian members 4 per cent of their balances to get them to agree to the merger . |
| 3 | Night waking Some professionals suggest that parents should wake their children at certain times during the night to get them to go to the lavatory . |
| 4 | Otherwise , the lawyers have to sort out things like what rights are retained by shareholders , access to new revisions , compensation plans , employment contracts , shared AT&T/USL patents , pension plans and whether USL employees still have a right to go back to work at AT&T , an enticement used to get them to go to USL in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ I still think it may be the only way to get them to move to a real meaningful ceasefire , real meaningful peace talks , ’ Clinton said . |
| 6 | Mrs Jones needs a closer and better relationship with the psychiatric services ; she needs to get them to listen to her needs and she also needs someone to provide practical help with money problems for her son , someone who can discuss work opportunities , recognize his need for friendship and help him think about his future . |
| 7 | His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 9 | Joseph was trying to get someone to explain to him what the exchanges between Durance and Maurin had been about and where Maurin had gone . |
| 10 | Well the first few levels are just to get you used to the game , but , the other 100 levels will test you to your limit with the addition of elevators , boiling acid , lasers , lava acid and anti-grav . |
| 11 | Think back to the stuff we did on memory , a little and often is a good way of trying to remember things Okay , it 's useful if you 've covered topic areas to actually think about writing essays about questions that you think about to get you used to the style and time s scale of actually dealing with exams . |
| 12 | It still would n't be enough er nicotine to get you addicted to cigarettes . |
| 13 | Another prisoner wrote to me recently , and I am now seeking to get him transferred to a prison nearer his home in Liverpool . |
| 14 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 15 | What we really want to do is to get him to respond to some of our press releases and to comment from his perspective of what the press is actually looking for . |
| 16 | He jogged every morning with lead weights slung on his chest , back and thighs to get him used to the extra poundage of the armour . |
| 17 | The British government said it would try to get him returned to Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried to get him to come to London , ’ said Hardy , ‘ but he would n't . |
| 19 | He is playing in the Second Division at the moment , but my priority is to get him to come to the club . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll try to get him to speak to you . ’ |
| 21 | If your elderly relative is unfortunate enough to be registered with a doctor who is impatient with the older patients on his list and not particularly interested in geriatric medicine , the best thing to do is to try to get her transferred to the list of another doctor in the area whose attitude towards his elderly patients is known to be more sympathetic and thorough . |
| 22 | I mean , she 'll go on a bus but no further , and we tried everything to get her to come to America — she would have loved to see me on Broadway , and she wanted to get there . |
| 23 | Poppy visiting the feeding station , set up to get her used to a routine . |
| 24 | Dummy running was important to get everybody used to the camera so that the film is a reasonably authentic representation of a lesson . |
| 25 | The senior registrar contract arrived dated May 1988 , and a six month battle ensued to get it backdated to January 1987 . |