Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] get [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Braque : ‘ When the fragmentation of objects appeared in my painting around 1910 , it was as a technique for getting closer to the object … ’ |
| 2 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 3 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 4 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 5 | I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend . |
| 6 | Cook has every intention of getting back into the South African team next season although he will not find it easy following the success of Andrew Hudson at the World Cup . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor Laura — you never were any good at getting up in the morning , were you ? ’ he mocked softly , taking the clattering cup and saucer from her shaking hands , before leaning forward to brush a stray tendril of hair from her brow . |
| 8 | Police need to break the cycle of crime by getting through to the juveniles . |
| 9 | Afterwards you stand no hope of getting back into the City . |
| 10 | Destabilisation of the German economy could kill off Europe 's hope of getting out of the recession . |
| 11 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 12 | Advisers constantly complain of lost files at the Department of Social Security , staff indifference and the difficulty of getting through on the telephone . |
| 13 | You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat . |
| 14 | However , these can only be a rough guide , and there is no replacement for experience of getting down among the crevices , ledges and pools . |
| 15 | For them , it is more a question of getting on with the job . |
| 16 | In line with its philosophy of getting close to the consumer , GBW has been reorganised into four operating regions : Ireland , rest of Europe , Africa & americas and Asia/Pacific . |
| 17 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 18 | There was just time for England and Australia to fit in the final Test before getting on with the serious business — serious to those for whom dollar signs are important — of dashing round the country playing game after game after game of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 19 | On the way , we stopped at the border and went through the immigration and customs formalities , which were very courteous though long , and we were given lunch before getting back on the train ! |
| 20 | The Prince of Wales is an expert at getting on to the person 's own level . |
| 21 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
| 22 | Fig 58 This illustrates the importance of getting close to the board . |
| 23 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 24 | She accepts that she then was confused , she did n't know what to do erm she did n't think there was any point in getting out of the car which is what sh she should of done , she should of tried to make some enquiries about the child er , but she er , she looked around shrugged her shoulders and and then carried on her journey because she did n't think there was anything else she could do about it . |
| 25 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 26 | yeah it 's good that they had a fairer chance of getting on to the tables |
| 27 | You will then have a better chance of getting through to the interview stage ; |
| 28 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 29 | ‘ Any chance of getting in at the end of that scheme ? ’ |
| 30 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |