Example sentences of "to get at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 2 | Those who want to get at the frozen part of their savings in the old currency will have to buy new currency from the central bank , at auctions where it will cost them well over its face value . |
| 3 | Since that would mean that the World Bank would talk less to governments , one of the Treasury 's main reasons for bullying the IFC is in order to get at the Bank . |
| 4 | Caspar was trying to get at the dead magpie that Philip was still holding . |
| 5 | Caspar , straining to get at the dead magpie , leapt forward and the collar snapped . |
| 6 | Immediately you touched those bones , and all the others did the same , laughing and jostling to get at the coffin . |
| 7 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 8 | Gabo , Moore and Hepworth took sections and punched holes to get at the space within . |
| 9 | It 's difficult to get at the timbers once you 've insulated , so get the job done properly and carry out the treatment before insulating the loft . |
| 10 | There are a large number of living species that are predators , some species using the modified radula as a kind of poison dart , others employing it to bore neat , perfectly round holes through the shells of prey ( often bivalves ) in order to get at the nutritious interior . |
| 11 | Maggie sat at the table , thinking that she did n't know about the proposed camp but could n't wait to get at the promised bathing facilities . |
| 12 | Chris told us the story or how the man and the woman fed from this tree and , when they were away , to get at the food others chopped it down and the trunk became the Amazon , the branches its tributaries . |
| 13 | But before the meeting could commence a group of young demonstrators attempted to break through the police lines to get at the counter-demonstrators , who were jeering , shouting slogans and singing party songs . |
| 14 | Herculaneum suffered equally badly , except that there underground shafts and tunnels had to be driven to get at the antiquities . |
| 15 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 16 | During his third lecture the crowd outside the house was scarcely prevented from attacking it to get at the ‘ damn 'd Jacobine ’ inside . |
| 17 | According to the consortium proposing the mine , digging an open pit is the only way to get at the tungsten , which is embedded as a wolframite ( iron manganese tungstenate ) in a deposit of granite . |
| 18 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 19 | It should not be possible to get at the dangerous mains wiring without using a screwdriver or other tool . |
| 20 | He had fought hard over the year of her suspension to have her case dealt with speedily , and to get at the truth behind the allegations . |
| 21 | Erich Honecker , for instance , continued demolishing villages in East Germany until the end , but only in the relatively rational quest to get at the dirty sulphuric brown coal underneath them to provide inefficient and polluting fuel for his tottering smoke-stack industries . |
| 22 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |
| 23 | You have to agree to keep up payments for ten years and normally will not be able to get at the cash in the meantime . |
| 24 | There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard . |
| 25 | It was an old thing with spikes and flaps which you could lift up and down to get at the mechanics . |
| 26 | But this talk about ‘ a frontier which is perceived from both sides ’ makes it sound as if in addition to the physical eye which I can use to get at the pin there is a sort of phantom eye in my skull with which I can see what goes on under my skin . |
| 27 | A great deal of work has been done in attempts to get at the ‘ true ’ total of crimes committed . |
| 28 | As they do not actually devour the tissue but merely pierce through the skin to get at the sap inside , the problem of making contact can become a little more difficult . |
| 29 | To get at the true explanation we must concentrate on the fact that the bureaucracy 's ‘ particular functioning is not directly determined by its class membership , by the political functioning of those classes and functions from which it originates : it depends on the concrete functioning of the state apparatus , i.e. on the place of the state in the ensemble of a formation and on its complex relations with the various classes and fractions ’ . |
| 30 | That is about as much as the East Europeans are likely to get at the moment . |