Example sentences of "getting [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m . |
| 2 | Getting them out into the open means that they can be robbed of their numbing effect , and turned instead into potent sources of energy . |
| 3 | Mothers no doubt think they are doing the very best for their children , getting them off to a good night 's sleep . |
| 4 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 5 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 6 | To have tried to help Jacqui in the matter of the photographs was illogical , but at least generous , getting her out of an awkward situation . |
| 7 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |
| 8 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
| 9 | So we are now getting it back into the corporate sector . |
| 10 | For an English director it might be very difficult to imagine getting it out of the traditional setting . ’ |
| 11 | Four weeks of being cooped up with Flute had taught Arthur that Ubu Roi was the most seminal possible thing about funniness , and if it was a book he was prepared to try getting it out of the public library one day . |