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

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1 Choose one about 600mm ( 2ft ) long with a metal body , and both horizontal and vertical indicators ; then you can use it for getting things plumb too .
2 And this er oh dear what was the name of it , they had a special title for the man that sort of ran the stall as they called it for getting the coal out and he he chose who he wanted to go to work .
3 vary it between getting about , sitting up , standing up , sitting down .
4 Is n't it worth getting dressed up for once ? ’
5 ‘ It would make it worth getting up in the morning . ’
6 In the same way it knows enough to tuck itself well out of harm 's way in the face of physical threat , so becoming a much smaller target for an irate wife with a meat cleaver who suspects it of getting exercise elsewhere .
7 ‘ What 's it like to get 300 in a Test match , I wonder , ’ mused the Accountant .
8 Aggressive , aggression might be tied it with getting your own but being assertive is not about getting your own way .
9 ‘ Is that what you mix it with to get crack ? ’
10 I hung it on a branch to keep it from getting damp .
11 This will prevent it from getting caught up .
12 Stop it from getting in … ’
13 You know , just to keep it loose , keep it from getting clogged up again .
14 He said the oil would either be absorbed by the booms or would stack up behind them , stopping it from getting downstream .
15 plus it protects it , stops it from getting chipped .
16 Well that do n't stop it from getting on her nerves does it ?
17 ‘ Each is only concerned to find ways of advocating it without getting it . ’
18 What 's more , he did it without getting his feet wet .
19 Not only that , as men of power , pillars of the community , they are most likely to believe that they can get away with it without getting caught .
20 Gamely , but a bit limply , Dr Clark claimed they had only got it by getting Mr Gummer ‘ dragged to the House ’ .
21 Pedestrians know that runners have a programme to fulfil , and respect it by getting out of their way .
22 Management by crisis is a favoured metaphor of managing because it implies disentangling realities and priorities in a hurry , making a decision , and executing it by getting others to carry out the appropriate actions .
23 That means an educated working class , understanding the needs of socialism or communism and setting about the task of achieving it by getting rid of capitalism and introducing socialism , or communism .
24 They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem .
25 ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible .
26 Now I know I could do it by getting a little deeper into things but can anyone think of a pure MS-DOS way of doing it ?
27 You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home .
28 Is it been a cold call and you 've qualified it by getting an advertisement out there or is it qualified by actually getting the money in your hand .
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