Example sentences of "[prep] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man I am talking about got up slowly . |
| 2 | Now you 've got ta got there yet . |
| 3 | ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on . |
| 4 | ‘ Music 's not about being political , ’ reckons Scott , ‘ it 's for gettin' off on . |
| 5 | She 's made me think , think differently about … about gettin' on an' that , betterin' mesel' . |
| 6 | Just before bedtime , until an hour after getting up , a person 's blood temperature is low , and there is a resultant decrease in mental efficiency . |
| 7 | After getting physically very weak as the result of being unable to eat without extreme discomfort , a few weeks ago Molly was admitted to the Royal Homeopathic Hospital Great Ormond Street where doctors found and dealt with a severe restriction in her stomach . |
| 8 | Five fish have died , mostly after getting extremely thin . |
| 9 | Intruders at the Bull and Dog pub in Greatham , near Hartlepool , stole £920 from the vending and gaming machines after getting in through a groundfloor window . |
| 10 | Though Connolly also headed straight at the goalkeeper in the 88th minute — that was probably the time McLean slipped off his sandbag — an even better opportunity for United to secure a share of the spoils was squandered by substitute Christian Dailly , who failed to even get his shot on target after getting in behind the Hearts defence . |
| 11 | ‘ After getting out of the cab , I looked round and saw what looked like a car upside down on fire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After getting out of his car he was attacked by the youths , who were in their late teens and wore dark clothing . |
| 14 | After getting back into the accurate turn as before , apply a very small amount of opposite rudder to create a slightly slipping turn and try the stall again . |
| 15 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 16 | The Southampton study suggested a ‘ New Driver Scheme ’ which would mean new drivers would appear in court after getting only four or six penalty points . |
| 17 | The strike had ended soon after he had commenced this venture so he was again at work during the day , as a machinist , but after getting home at 6 p.m. and hastily eating a meal , he went into his ( or should I say , the communal ) bedroom , and worked long into the night . |
| 18 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 19 | One Olympic athlete broke a world record only an hour after intercourse and a British athlete ran a four-minute mile just ninety minutes after getting down to it . |
| 20 | And we sort of got on . ’ |
| 21 | And we sort of got on . ’ |
| 22 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 23 | He sort of got down on his back legs . |
| 24 | the situation I would n't of thought I could of got away with anything much more than that |
| 25 | , did n't bring your lead did I , It was on the back seat , well this girl apparently , erm , would of got away of killing her father |
| 26 | he 'd of got where he is . |
| 27 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 28 | I thought they might of got on and done that |
| 29 | I thought he were gon na forget that , I thought I should of got up and told everybody at the front |
| 30 | seems to be wide awake could of got up |