Example sentences of "to get it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But every time we came up with something we never seemed to get it beyond the initial idea , and then suddenly someone else would come out with it !
2 ‘ How are we going to get it through the door ? ! ’ sighed Endill .
3 This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west .
4 In the UK it will only be used under the law according to the 1967 Abortion Act , so no one will be able to get it over the counter at the chemist 's , nor will it be prescribed by GPs .
5 Mr Middleton came from behind and repeatedly whipped it to get it over the gate .
6 Switchboard was formed in 1974 out of an alliance between the old Gay Liberation Front office collective , who donated the office , and Gay News , who donated the publicity and energy to get it off the ground .
7 But how did the , what was puzzling a lot of people how did he manage to get it off the ground and into his pocket .
8 Only time will tell , but it will require a number of dedicated members to get it off the ground .
9 What better way to get it off the ground than by leading an armada of rafts up river , parading before the assembled crowd of onlookers ?
10 I suspect that , if someone now discovered a substance as addictive and harmful as tobacco , even this Government would be highly unlikely to license it to get it off the ground as a marketable product .
11 ‘ We hope to get it off the ground very shortly and it will be run in conjunction with the Women 's Hospital . ’
12 ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible .
13 What we will never know is what price Ford will have to pay to get it to the top spot .
14 But the Prince was determined to get it to the finishing line .
15 Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that .
16 I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today .
17 Finding s okay so there was a little bit of it was a little bit awkward to get it to the nearest degree there .
18 ‘ You 'll have to get it on the loudspeaker when it 's Jazz 's turn to go , ’ Uncle Bean said .
19 I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’
20 The idea took shape some five years ago in the back room of London 's Bull & Gate , and it 's taken until now to get it on the road — for 32 days only .
21 credit approvals now get taken up so quickly because the government does n't let much money borrow erm much money to be borrowed parish councils unfortunately so we need to do it fairly urgently if we 're going to get it on the list , I think the list is already about ten parish councils long .
22 he gets fed up trying to get it on the drive
23 But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen .
24 ‘ I particularly do n't want to get it at the moment , ’ he said rather irritably .
25 But I ca n't afford to get it at the same time anyway cos he he wo n't be down
26 I wonder whether they were n't trying to get it for the museum .
27 Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day .
28 Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first .
29 ‘ As soon as they get the ball , their intention is to get it into the box as quickly as possible and to finish with a shot .
30 To help clear anxiety and to get it into the open , to put on record and share responsibility .
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