Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Homunculi do not allow anyone to see the oracle unless invited.The adventurers will need to keep their wits about them to get past these pests . |
| 2 | I will have to keep my wits about me to get my team selections , and my substitutes , right . |
| 3 | Parish council clerk Herbert Booty said gipsies had knocked down 200 saplings on the county council-owned land by driving through them to get onto the land . |
| 4 | As a general rule , Dobermanns usually have good appetites and , therefore , it is not uncommon for them to get fat — a combination of too much food and too little exercise is not good for this breed ! |
| 5 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
| 6 | It 's a big step for them to get out of that because they need independent housing and distance from the men controlling it . |
| 7 | It is cheaper for them to get a garden fork and go out digging for their own . ’ |
| 8 | When Charles obtained his post at Suffolk , there had been a certain amount of pressure from both sets of parents for them to get married . |
| 9 | Then , as the light was going , a convoy rolled in with the pool — just too late for them to get any pictures . ’ |
| 10 | It is not easy for them to get a meal , but if they do it is likely to be a big one . |
| 11 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 12 | However , the lethargic effects of dope ( incl. grass ) can de-motivate young people , making it harder for them to get bored with doing nothing . |
| 13 | Malone said , ‘ Made it easy for them to get in . ’ |
| 14 | TRAINS were stuck at a new bridge after a planning blunder meant it was too low for them to get under . |
| 15 | Most of all they enjoyed the space we created for them to get on and do their work in relative peace . |
| 16 | Eventually his mother was asked to remove him because the staff never managed to bring his behaviour under control ; they found that he produced just too much undesirable behaviour for them to get to grips with . |
| 17 | It 's too quick , too close for them to get their house in order from the tourists ’ point of view . |
| 18 | A kind of downward spiral results , the kids growing progressively more pessimistic about their chances , their hopes plummeting and their general postures making it more difficult for them to get jobs . |
| 19 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 20 | I waited happily for them to get through . |
| 21 | It would take that long for them to get so far apart . ’ |
| 22 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 23 | We 've been over this place time and time again and there 's nowt for them to get . " |
| 24 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 25 | It 's no good to them , this land if sold in the on this particular piece of land , they 've sold all the viable access off to the residents of the have n't they ? so there , there 's no right of way really for them to get down there , and it should be cheap . |
| 26 | I tell them to pay in metal , it is easier for me to negotiate , but they always reply that it 's too hard for them to get . |
| 27 | Rats in cages have been injected with it and now the scientists are waiting for them to get ill so they can try and cure them . |
| 28 | it would be handy for them to get |
| 29 | and er I was just wondering we we ought to do something , I mean these poor old dears have adhered to what we have said and facilities for them to get down onto to the er the . |
| 30 | Things have changed enormously , but it 's , so it took sometime for them to get to know that they , the French were at war with , the Prussians and the Austrians , and do n't forget that Strasbourg is only on the other side of the Rhine from Germany or whatever part of Germany er , it was at the time . |