Example sentences of "of getting [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat . |
| 2 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 3 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 4 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
| 5 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 6 | Instead of getting on with the business of making toilet water , he spent his time on the racecourse and worse . |
| 7 | For them , it is more a question of getting on with the job . |
| 8 | yeah it 's good that they had a fairer chance of getting on to the tables |
| 9 | The final way of getting on to the Council in a given year was by being an ypilachó0n or stand-in , and that may explain some instances of ‘ carpet-baggers ’ , i.e. political adventurers who offered themselves as Councillors for demes other than their home deme . |
| 10 | Advisers constantly complain of lost files at the Department of Social Security , staff indifference and the difficulty of getting through on the telephone . |
| 11 | The most common difficulty found with hardware was that of coping with noisy lines and of getting through to the services . |
| 12 | You will then have a better chance of getting through to the interview stage ; |
| 13 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 14 | Another way of getting out of the recession is by increasing public expenditure . |
| 15 | Destabilisation of the German economy could kill off Europe 's hope of getting out of the recession . |
| 16 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 17 | In their generosity , or relief of getting out of the kitchen , they ply me with bag loads of organic vegetables . |
| 18 | If the fish did attack and he missed with his spear , Trent knew that his chances of getting out of the water in one piece were nil . |
| 19 | Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time . |
| 20 | If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small . |
| 21 | Hopefully , it 'll give some severely disabled people a means of getting out of the bath without having to rely on another person . ’ |
| 22 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 23 | He saw her look from him to the key , judging the distance , assessing the possibility of getting out of the room alive , and smiled inwardly . |
| 24 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 25 | I know they 're going on to security entrance is n't it , where the er they 're going to have their own key or own method of getting in on an intercom . |
| 26 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 27 | ‘ Any chance of getting in at the end of that scheme ? ’ |
| 28 | However , these can only be a rough guide , and there is no replacement for experience of getting down among the crevices , ledges and pools . |
| 29 | Cook has every intention of getting back into the South African team next season although he will not find it easy following the success of Andrew Hudson at the World Cup . |
| 30 | Afterwards you stand no hope of getting back into the City . |