Example sentences of "get to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These questions are important ones , because they get to the heart of our concern about higher education . |
| 2 | That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever , everywhere ; but a beautiful silver sadness , like a Christ face . |
| 3 | THE INSIDE STORY Press get to the heart of superplant |
| 4 | Get to the back of the drawers and cupboards — areas which do n't often see the light of day . |
| 5 | Get to the back of the queue , fat boy ! |
| 6 | He said : ‘ Get to the back of the queue ! ’ |
| 7 | He said : ‘ Get to the back of the queue ! ’ |
| 8 | Please get to the back of the queue ! |
| 9 | And you get rid of the idea of the force getting stronger the closer you get to the ball by saying the curvature gets greater . ’ |
| 10 | So we get to the anniversary of the policy , not the claim , the policy , I just coincide my illness with an anniversary , but on the anniversary of the policy , we 'll look at the policy , where inflation , what 's it done over the last twelve months , let's say it 's gone up by five per cent . |
| 11 | In contrast , by the time we get to the division over the standing army in 1699 — normally thought to have been a Court–Country rather than a party issue — there were only 36 Whigs out of a total of 221 on the Country side . |
| 12 | That summit was partially hidden , however , for when you get to the top of the final slope there 's a level stretch that takes you just out of view . |
| 13 | When you get to the top of each leg it 's vital to remember the inside where it rubs against the chest , which can often matt . |
| 14 | The resistance to this shearing will start at nothing , build up to a maximum , and decline again to zero when the atoms get to the top of the hump . |
| 15 | When you get to the top of your sleeve , take the stitches off the machine with the garter bar . |
| 16 | They find a backlog of work building up , in which important but less urgent planning and discussing never get to the top of the pile , being submerged by the constant stream of things that have to be dealt with immediately . |
| 17 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |
| 18 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 19 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 20 | Okay stop when you get to the map of the United States , please . |
| 21 | I 'll say to her any yeah oh yeah , if we if we get to the station at five past three do you reckon we 'll get the three o'clock train ? |
| 22 | Andrew Pickett , Zammo Collings , Helen Pawsey and Spencer Windebank get to the prom on time , thanks to help from parent Peter Windebank . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've a good mind to go down to Mrs Wright 's now and get to the bottom of this , ’ said his Dad as Philip went upstairs . |
| 24 | It is n't much good writing ‘ I would carry out a thorough investigation and get to the bottom of this whole business … ’ |
| 25 | And get to the bottom of that Lilith woman and her tricks — if tricks they were … |
| 26 | it 's alright but you get to the bottom of those stairs and sometimes . |
| 27 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 28 | My wish , the wish of all of us , is simply that we may as quickly as possible get to the bottom of the shocking and cold-blooded crime which has stunned and appalled the entire country , and arrest and punish those responsible . |
| 29 | So he was brought to trial so they could test out this , this whole situation , get to the bottom of it and the , the high priest Kiathas was the central figure in organising the troops . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to have a talk with Hayley , get to the bottom of this glue-sniffing business . ’ |