Example sentences of "[prep] get out " in BNC.

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1 After getting out of the cab , I looked round and saw what looked like a car upside down on fire .
2 After getting out of the car she bent over and pushed open the gate , then closed it behind her , walked up the short path and rang the doorbell .
3 After getting out of his car he was attacked by the youths , who were in their late teens and wore dark clothing .
4 Well if that car in front has not pulled up quite so far this way , I would of got out a little more easily .
5 He would n't of got out !
6 Hardening again : ‘ Is n't Jeff a way of getting out ; as well …
7 At least Gooch had the consolation of getting out to the best of the home bowlers , and to a man who is coached by former Indian captain , Kapil Dev .
8 Or has this whole summer for Mansell been a fabrication of what he really felt , a means of getting out of his Ferrari contract by saying he was quitting and then holding Williams to ransom after they had backed themselves into a corner ?
9 For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate .
10 In their generosity , or relief of getting out of the kitchen , they ply me with bag loads of organic vegetables .
11 It has asked the Department of Trade and Industry for approval to set up a vehicle to provide names with a way of getting out of open years .
12 Getting in would be hazardous ; to say nothing of getting out , but it was his only chance .
13 But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation .
14 Or else she and her husband would find some way of getting out of Russia and would share the entrancing hardship of starting afresh in the West .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time .
18 If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small .
19 Before the Guardianship Act of 1943 , the RCM had next to no real power to restrain a youngster who showed signs of getting out of control .
20 Get into the habit first of feeling the sheer thrill and exhilaration of getting out of doors away from telephones , noise , and distractions .
21 The conservatory is light and airy , but remains sufficiently shaded to prevent summer temperatures of getting out of hand .
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 Water resistance : little resistance to persistent rain but the fabric dries out so quickly after shows that it 's often not worth the bother of getting out your overtrousers .
24 I think black kids look towards sport as a means of achievement or a means of getting out of society .
25 The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room .
26 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 .
27 So it was a way of getting out and I knew that eventually the council would have to rehouse me .
28 Start the process of getting out .
29 And the TARDIS is our best hope of getting out of here . ’
30 That 's what I said , excellent , that 's a crafty way of getting out of it , good .
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