Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused to send his horses to be shod at our smithy after that ; for once the smith 's verdict got around it would be difficult for him to sell the mare . |
| 2 | The £26m deal eclipses the £13m advance which Prince got in September . |
| 3 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 4 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 5 | As West European industrialisation got under way , so the demand for goods manufactured in and around Danzig also began to improve : there was increased Prussian demand for armaments , chemicals , food , timber , clothing and shipbuilding to support the growth of industry in Western Prussia . |
| 6 | Heavy rain had prevented an ; y play on the first day at Old Trafford , and though high scores were not expected when play got under way on the second day , few people could reasonably have expected that the contest would be over and done with in one day . |
| 7 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
| 8 | In Britain a considerable reorganisation got under way in 1903 . |
| 9 | The PC got in his car and drove off . |
| 10 | By what route the technique got into West Africa — or even whether it was independently devised there — can not be ascertained until we have discovered more sites of the first millennium AD , and earlier in West Africa . |
| 11 | For example , ‘ Your GP got in touch with me to say you were having some problems with your daughter , Anne . |
| 12 | A 37-year-old woman accused of mortgage frauds totalling more than £1 million yesterday collapsed twice in the dock as the case got under way . |
| 13 | In a statement circulated to delegates yesterday — as the full debate on the proposed ban got under way — the Hong Kong government said that , while new ivory should be banned from trade , ‘ properly controlled trading of legally-acquired and legally-held ivory should be allowed to continue ’ . |
| 14 | The corset buyer got to her feet grimly and picked up the glass of drinking water in front of her . |
| 15 | ‘ The recession got in the way . |
| 16 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 17 | Precisely what the taxpayer got in return is less easily quantified . |
| 18 | But two minutes into injury time their defence got into a tangle after a Logrones throw and let the ball run through to Agustin Abadia , who thumped in his second goal of the day to level the scores . |
| 19 | Yeah probably I think she 'll always be like it though , cos her mum 's just the same , she 's just like her mum , you know her mum got in a strop every day because she could n't go round , down the |
| 20 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 21 | Well it is , it is , yeah , it 's a , there 's a little of flesh but nothing like you know it was when his foot got like that do you see what I mean ? |
| 22 | In 1984 and 1985 Electronics got into severe financial difficulties , and as a result there were delays in paying Magnetics substantial amounts of money due to it . |
| 23 | Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way . |
| 24 | The 1989 by-election result , when even a split centre vote got within 2,650 of defeating Tory wunderkind Mr William Hague , was proved to be a midterm aberration . |
| 25 | The light got into corners , casting shadows on the bare boards . |
| 26 | Somehow the chemical got from a storage tank into water supplies . |
| 27 | The contest got under way — a series of knockout bouts inexorably leading to the final pair and , after seeing Richard — and Tom — win their opening bouts without much difficulty , she wandered away , suddenly keen to be on her own . |
| 28 | The drama continued throughout the evening as the contest got under way , with fortunes changing with every throw of the darts . |
| 29 | Then , the blood got in his eyes . |
| 30 | The uncertainty got to Paul . |