Example sentences of "get [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as nobody gets hurt , we can get through life tolerably well this way . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't get off school , ’ Keith says . |
| 3 | We get off , when do we get off school ? |
| 4 | Right , you 'll get off hydrogen there and |
| 5 | I do n't know how long I 'll be — you 'd much better get off home . ’ |
| 6 | Right then , I 'll get off home and er see what 's what . |
| 7 | What did you get off Father Christmas ? looking at his sack and he put the bunny in the cellar . |
| 8 | Because it stretches , it avoids the hard line you can get between welt and garment if you join them by casting off . |
| 9 | The only thing you could do is get the , you know that kind of plastic edging you can get for wall tiles |
| 10 | Oh , yawn , what do you reckon you 'll get for maths ? |
| 11 | That 's one ninety five for three people , plus for the extra couple of coppers you 're gon na get for door to door delivery |
| 12 | The ones you can get for lunch — there are plenty — will likely forget every word you tell them , and they certainly do n't feel obliged to help . ’ |
| 13 | Now , what should she get for lunch ? |
| 14 | C. A few years ago , a group of farmers in eastern Britain decided that the market price they were offered for milk , from dairy cows fed on grass , was not as good as the price they could get for beef cattle , which are fattened in pens by being fed with crops of barley . |
| 15 | What 'd you get for number six A ? |
| 16 | It is the book that every literate member of my family will get for Christmas , both for the fun of it , and so they can shock their humanist friends with some real news about human nature . |
| 17 | what did erm Aunty Bonny get for Christmas ? |
| 18 | It is not worth our while because we can not redeem them for as much as they would get for five- or 10-dollar bills . ’ |
| 19 | They 're not gon na get past number eleven . |
| 20 | Let me get behind furniture |
| 21 | If I can get near Mum I must tell her that she should do a spot of witnessing to the woman across from her . |
| 22 | As for the Nehru , England 's first match is on 15 October , while India and Pakistan do not get under way until the 22nd . |
| 23 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman will write the music for the spectacular , which will get under way early in the new decade . |
| 24 | WHEN the polls close at 10pm , the serious business of celebrating the winning , or losing , will get under way . |
| 25 | One WCY project that should get under way concerns appropriate technology for rural radio broadcasting . |
| 26 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 27 | Anyway , I 'd sooner get under way . |
| 28 | In Scotland , the assessors , in discussions with the Inland Revenue valuation office in Scotland , have been preparing for the actual task of valuation , which will get under way shortly . |
| 29 | His judgement regarding the timing of the Irish government 's involvement would , he said , be governed by the fact that all three sets of discussions would get under way within weeks of each other . |
| 30 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |