Example sentences of "[vb past] get [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 3 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 4 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 5 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 6 | Eventually he managed to get away to the continent , and when he was restored to the throne nine years later , the story of the King 's narrow escape seized the public imagination . |
| 7 | " The subsequent court case was heard at Lewes when the boat 's owner pleaded guilty , but his accomplice pleaded ignorance and managed to get away without a prison sentence , his excuse being that once he realised what was happening he felt obliged to remain on board as it would have been dangerous to leave the owner alone to handle the boat with a load of passengers . |
| 8 | He was delighted that Hoare planned to get away for a holiday in Switzerland . |
| 9 | Charles Innes , an experienced lawyer who advised Lord Dundas in political matters , had no doubt about the desirability of acting to meet Glassford 's wishes , pointing out that Carrick had not been dismissed for malversation , which would have made reinstatement a difficult matter , but for ‘ some piece of neglect or inattention ’ , and in fact another of Dundas 's correspondents appeared to get closer to the heart of the difficulty when he met with Glassford , reporting that |
| 10 | England made a decent 217 , with 68 from Boycott and 59 from Gower ; but after Greenidge and Haynes had got half-way to the target , Richards , who had missed the first match , played as only he can . |
| 11 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 12 | They had got together over the weekend to discuss the implications of the confidential letter the two Americans had received from Randy Mueller on behalf of Nate Cocello . |
| 13 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 14 | Three months later , in April 1945 , he had got further with the idea : |
| 15 | Watching through the window , Lucy saw him make his way towards the wool shed , his strides long , as though he wished to get there in a hurry . |
| 16 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 17 | She could well understand how women in particular wanted to get away to the West where daily life was so much more convenient . |
| 18 | ‘ We both wanted to get away to the countryside . |
| 19 | ‘ In the late ‘ sixties those who now lead this movement wanted to get away from a Christianity that was centred around buildings and meetings and give time to developing relationships . |
| 20 | They also wanted to get away from the idea of the traditional rock tour . |
| 21 | They also wanted to get away from the idea of the traditional rock tour . |
| 22 | I wanted to get away from the scene as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 23 | I wanted to get away from the Perm and talk to Charlie , but Charlie was n't going anywhere . |
| 24 | He explained that an innovation on the ship , bought a year ago from a Danish company , was the introduction of a ‘ club class ’ , ideal for the businessman who wanted to get away from the crowd . |
| 25 | He explained that an innovation on the ship , bought a year ago from a Danish company , was the introduction of a ‘ club class ’ ideal for the businessman who wanted to get away from the crowd . |
| 26 | ‘ They just wanted to get away from the car . ’ |
| 27 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 28 | He wanted to get away from the imagination , away from the vague glamour of medieval things , from reverence for tradition , from mysticism , enthusiasm and gloire ; away from all private visionary insights and down to the plain , measurable , publicly verifiable facts ; and this desire was central to his whole mission as a philosopher and reformer . |
| 29 | I wanted to have my car with me if I wanted to get away in a hurry . |