Sentence examples for get drilling from inspiring English sources

Like many of its South-East Asian neighbours, Indonesia has plenty of under-explored oil and gas prospects, onshore and offshore, and desperately needs to encourage oil firms to get drilling.

The long-planned drilling programme in the Chukchi Sea, 70 miles off Alaska's north-west coast, has been dogged with last-minute hiccups as the company has raced to get drilling under way before the winter sets in.

Charged with protecting public lands while exploiting their resources — for mining, drilling, timbering, ranching — Mr. Stringer's agency has been at the center of a fierce battle in recent years as companies have sought to lease federal property and get drilling permits.

Mainly they are situated in areas where companies have already acquired rights to explore potential shale gas reserves in the future, if they get drilling permission by local authorities.

It's estimated as much as a quarter of known reserves could lie in this daunting environment, but with high energy prices and rocketing demand from ravenous Chinese and Indian economies, Arctic nations are keen to get drilling and reap the benefits.

"Every time I came home with a shopping bag I would get drilled," she recalled.

Bell said he cannot get drilled near his face because, "I ain't the cutest person".

"The way we lost it -- you'd rather get drilled than lose on a last-second play".

"I'm trying to get 'the picket fence.' Everything you get drilled into your head, I'm trying to live it".

If you make too hard a slide into a base and almost hurt your opponent, a teammate may get drilled by a pitch in the back.

If you take too much time to enjoy a home run you hit, either you or a teammate will get drilled by a pitch in the back.