Example sentences of "get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can get through the rest of the week if I know I 've got comin' here to look forward to . |
| 2 | He has used a fast government car to shake off at least one photographer , but there is a more prosaic explanation for Mr Lamont 's perambulations around Blackpool — his civil servants could not get through the security around the Imperial . |
| 3 | She no longer woke up wondering why she was alive , wondering how she would get through the day . |
| 4 | ‘ If I can get through the window . |
| 5 | Elisabeth felt serene ; accompanied by Rosa 's good sense she might well get through the rest of the day without the invasive noises and searing pain that thoughts of the past aroused in her . |
| 6 | ‘ They could n't get through the undergrowth before . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All I have to do is get through the trials , ’ he says with ironic humour . |
| 8 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 9 | They crashed through their set as if they were in a competition to see who could get through the most songs in the shortest time , sounding like an unrehearsed version of the group Charlie and I had seen in the Nashville . |
| 10 | Many people believe that if they can just get through the days , time will heal the wounds . |
| 11 | During the terrifying 15-minute ride the Catholic mother of three recited decades of the rosary to herself to help get through the ordeal . |
| 12 | No-one can be absolutely sure that virus in cum or pre-cum ca n't get through the linings of the mouth or throat . |
| 13 | The double glazing should be well sealed , because air can get through the smallest space , and with it will travel the sound vibrations . |
| 14 | ‘ At the end of the day , my husband is my best friend , but I could n't get through the day without talking to another woman — men do n't seem to need to air their hopes and fears like we do . |
| 15 | There was no way this tank could get through the trapdoor into the attic . |
| 16 | Pearson would not get through the screening process . |
| 17 | ‘ And now , ’ she said happily , ‘ I can get through the little door into that beautiful garden . ’ |
| 18 | But within a month , she could n't get through the day without tranquillizers ; she felt less anxious , calmer . |
| 19 | ‘ But on the other hand , ’ Emily went on after a wait , ‘ the girl also said to me suddenly one day , when I thought she was trying to read back dictation , ‘ I ca n't get through the spring without a man . ’ |
| 20 | Shots came from every side of the stockade , hitting the wooden house , but the bullets did not get through the thick walls . |
| 21 | If I get recognised it means the group are doing summat , but you know I can quite happily get through the day without getting recognised … ’ |
| 22 | Apart from the inherent improbability that trained intelligence agents would simply add an armed suitcase bomb tagged for New York-JFK to a pile of international luggage waiting to be loaded in Luqa and then trust to luck that , unescorted , the bomb would get through the baggage-handling and security arrangements of two other major airports and be loaded aboard the target aircraft before the timer triggered an explosion , there remained the problem with the provenance and reliability of the Frankfurt baggage-list that was said to have identified the suitcase in the first place . |
| 23 | I had to go round the other night , Saturday night , and you could n't get through the door . |
| 24 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 25 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 26 | If Michael Banks could get through the part having his lines relayed to him by radio , then so , the producer 's reasoning ran , could any other actor . |
| 27 | Your face is so beautiful , I 'm thinking of finding a mask for it so that I can get through the day … |
| 28 | ‘ How did you get through the gate ? ’ |
| 29 | Busy , you could n't get through the streets for charabancs and charabancs in them days . |
| 30 | The depth of seal is the vertical distance between the normal water level in the trap and the level at which air can get through the trap ( see drawing ) . |