Example sentences of "[adv] get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 2 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 3 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 4 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |
| 5 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 6 | And er he was back there ten days ago for some or other to see another customer and when he came , only got back into the country on Monday or Tuesday |
| 7 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 8 | ‘ They have had their ins and outs and have all got back into the side , ’ he says . |
| 9 | There is a connotation to leadership that needs perhaps getting out of the way . |
| 10 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 11 | An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham . |
| 12 | If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way . |
| 13 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 14 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 15 | If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on . |
| 16 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on with the job quickly . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 18 | ‘ Better get back into the woods I reckon . |
| 19 | We said , ‘ We 'd better get back to the hotel and try to figure out this country in the morning . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ As I said , I 'd better get back to the hotel . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Operations Room . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Doctor . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You … you 'd better get back to the restaurant … |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd better get back in the car . |
| 27 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you 'd better get out of the water . |
| 29 | Better get out of the way . |
| 30 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |