Sentence examples for was to get by from inspiring English sources

"But the idea was to get by the anxiety about what the new tax system was about, to see if it would be acceptable".

The goal for most was to get by, doing well enough to secure a high-paying internship or full-time job, or to achieve a high grade-point average to move on to graduate school.

Some nights while Kim was trying to pitch A. T. & T.'s services to residents of Long Beach or Dayton or Scarsdale, the computers connected her to women who, she suspected, were struggling even harder than she was to get by — women who didn't want to switch phone carriers, who just wanted to keep another voice on the end of the line.

For 22 years, the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who survived the war were told that they faced a shapeless future and the best they could hope for was to get by, to put up with it and be grateful if their children were offered work in American military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sam apologised for being slow, saying how hard it was to get by as he was paying for all his mates drugs and food.

At the beginning of my second year of university – aware of how easy it was to get by on very little money, as long as I had enough for ketamine and baked potatoes – and after a worryingly small quantity of pints, I had the fantastic idea of going down to the casino, finding the roulette table and putting my entire student loan on red.

One gets the sense that all he wants is to get by.

Some nurses complain of how difficult it is to get by on their salaries.

What we couldn't allow to happen was to get done by a counter-attack.

To find true CDS, the next strategy used in this study was to get support by extrinsic evidence.

The aim of this study was to get additional information by 24-hour ambulatory measurements.