Example sentences of "[verb] get [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These schemes are notorious for corruption , but something has got through to the poor .
2 The idea has got about during the past three weeks that there is really not much difference between the parties , give or take the odd howl of anguish from the higher-tax-paying classes .
3 ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket .
4 STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander .
5 Meantime , the Irish stay sober to win professionally , but their club amateurs ca n't wait to get back to the 19th hole .
6 But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people .
7 But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people .
8 As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night .
9 Spalding and Miss Robinson were sent to the lift , told to get out at the second floor , turn right , and go to the rooms numbered 207 and 208 .
10 but you do n't expect to get out of the ruddy
11 Now , you 've got to get down to the real nitty gritty : how will the stage look , what about the sound system , who presses what buttons for the audio-visuals and when … ?
12 We 've got to get down to the nitty gritty and fight . ’
13 I have the impression that consumers would quite like to get back to the good old days when they used to spend money occasionally , ’ concluded Ainslie Tim .
14 That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit .
15 ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’
16 Could you then have got out of the black hole with the remaining extra stage ? ’
17 ‘ I must have got out of the wrong side of the bed , ’ Beck said .
18 He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp .
19 Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road .
20 I believe that it will be updated as the new computer takes on additional information , but when and at exactly what point is a matter on which I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman because I do not know ACPO 's plans .
21 Try to get off on the right foot ? ’
22 In the men 's singles contest , managed to get through to the semi final while in the triples contest , and from Draught Stout joined from Brewing to win through as far as the semi finals .
23 Only two candidates ( Dominique Voynet in the Jura and Christine Barthet in Haut-Rhin ) managed to get through to the second round on March 28 but neither was then elected .
24 Assuming , of course , you 'll want to get out of the 944 S2 once in a while and take a look .
25 This ended in the closure of the French Consulate in Canton , and a freeze on contracts to French companies — and the company 's ultimate ownership does not seem to have got through to the Chinese .
26 It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight .
27 If allowed to get through to the biological medium , dirt particles could clog it up , and possibly smother the bacterial colony .
28 Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year .
29 Something brown was fighting to get out of the bright green of the marsh .
30 Even if I do get out into the outer cellar unbound , what can I do ?
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