Example sentences of "[verb] to get [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we saw Liz 's auburn colouring we instantly thought of pre-Raphaelite curls , and prepared to get out the tongs . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 3 | So the adapters are attempting to get up the career using sort of tried and tested ways of digging and sort of hauling each other up , and this sort of thing . |
| 4 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 5 | As though in wonder that any virus , let alone a foreign one , would dare to get up the royal hooter . |
| 6 | Ca n't be bothered to get out the fucking house can you ? |
| 7 | While they were looking round the garden I you 've got to get out the shower quick . |
| 8 | Kathleen turned away from the window , hastily , for fear her sister should see her watching and began to get out the mixing bowl and pastry board , the flour and the milk . |
| 9 | Secondly , he needed to get back the coins and the letters without publicity which might reach his wife or the police . |
| 10 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 11 | She managed to get down the ladder . |
| 12 | Do you want to get out the sheet then with the gifts on that we lo you looked at . |
| 13 | There were more abseils to get down the Wellenkuppe 's rock pitch . |
| 14 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 15 | Cut the oranges in half crossways , squeeze to get out the juice and strain into a jug . |
| 16 | So they had to get up the slope fast . |
| 17 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 18 | You have to get out the cook books and the fancy attachments for the food processor . |