Example sentences of "[verb] get [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street . |
| 2 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 3 | At the end of the day it is good to be able to think that as you step back to look at the work — especially if you remember to get down from the ladder first . |
| 4 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |
| 5 | Great ; he could get the little bastard without having to get up from the floor . |
| 6 | It 's a good card tonight anyway and people may want to get out from the snow and have night out at the stadium . |
| 7 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 8 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 9 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 10 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 11 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 12 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 13 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |