Example sentences of "to get [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine when you go on holiday , what other things are you hoping to get as a result of it ? |
| 2 | What other things do you think you would hope to get as a result of your holiday ? |
| 3 | it reminded me of one of those plastic haircuts you used to get as a kid for the legoland men . |
| 4 | I notice now , lately it , er you know the last few years some of the things you used to get as a treat abroad and now here |
| 5 | Place a candle on a table , well out of the way of draughts , and encourage partygoers to get about a foot away from it . |
| 6 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 7 | I 've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it 's a woman doing the interviewing ; I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons . |
| 8 | ‘ The strength of the personal relationship with our account manager has allowed us to get through a number of fairly serious problems , ’ says Mr Miller , who believes the owners of small businesses need to make extra efforts to communicate with their bankers during hard times . |
| 9 | He also smoked the cigarettes Zborowski provided as part of the contract and managed to get through a bottle of wine . |
| 10 | She has to get through a lot of work but always accept interruptions . |
| 11 | But in the end when he went back she was asleep , and he did n't wake her because there were few enough hours before dawn , and he had to get through a day — a series of days — that would put to the test the most dangerous set of manoeuvres he had ever conducted . |
| 12 | You might think anybody involved with caring for animals would be soft to the core , but in Gillian 's case , you 'd have to get through a tough layer first . |
| 13 | Whenever you catch yourself speeding up in a car to get through a red light , deliberately penalize yourself by turning right at the next corner . |
| 14 | I 'm not 100% fit yet and my initial aim was just to get through a game , but I 'm not philosophical in that situation . |
| 15 | ‘ And that I have had to get through a lot of long silences with both of you . ’ |
| 16 | Have you ever started to speak and found yourself having to stop and take short breaths just to get through a sentence ? |
| 17 | And we know that it 's easier to get through a hospital now , appointment times are met , there 's less anonymity and more explanation to the patient of what 's happening next — the fact that we do know this because of surveys and face-to-face interviews itself comes from a culture of establishing objectives that matter . ’ |
| 18 | Dave Cheshire and newly signed Steve Regeling , the team 's new captain , were happy to get through a difficult night without injury . |
| 19 | At the time , ScotRail was also attempting to get through a similar application for the junction at Westerton , outside Glasgow . |
| 20 | And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week . |
| 21 | Rupert does , I think tend to get through a hell of a lot of milk . |
| 22 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 23 | No , no no this is them wanting to get off a course off the ground |
| 24 | Good television news coverage is of course a fantastic bonus , though it may be difficult to get for a modest but charming building . |
| 25 | Half a cupful you used to get for a ha'penny . |
| 26 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 27 | As Tabitha was trying to get past a couple of coked-up Thrants in expensive shakos and boiled leather , one of the Palernians turned a clumsy somersault , and one of the others pushed her into the canal . |
| 28 | Right cos what it is erm we 'd like if , if possible to get like a daily list of who 's due to appear on Pebble Mill where pop stars and T V stars are worth a damn sight more in newspapers than ne hard news these days it er should n't be a bad idea for us to try and get a , get in on who 's , you know , who 's coming in to appear . |
| 29 | Yeah , so er we want to get like a corner |
| 30 | Well we 'll be going to an auction to get like a reasonable car . |