Example sentences of "[subord] they get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they got out of the plane , they will probably be hiding now and trying to make their way back . |
| 2 | ‘ Their reactions ought to be recorded , ’ he believes , ‘ even if they get out of the City . ’ |
| 3 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 4 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 5 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 6 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 7 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 8 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 9 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 10 | I think if you ask any housewife , if they 're honest , they 'll turn round and say they feel like a drudge half the time — everybody thinks when they get up in the morning ‘ Oh no , I 've got the same old things to do today , till I go to bed tonight . ’ |
| 11 | Yep , that just about sums up what we do on the way to the cairn , hence the use of the word climb in trying to convey to a companion exactly what it is you expect them to do when they get out of the car . |
| 12 | The problems start when they get out of the ‘ All I want is a basic word processor ’ frame of mind and start getting into some serious computing . |
| 13 | When they get back to the start again . |
| 14 | Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane . |
| 15 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 16 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 17 | ‘ The SS went to a great deal of trouble on the public relations side : there was background music , lorries ready to transport women , children and the infirm , while prisoners were at hand to act as porters ; in short an atmosphere of relative welcome greeted the Jews when they got out of the cattle trucks … ’ |
| 18 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 19 | ‘ When they got back to the Lodge around eleven o'clock , Pinder ostentatiously said ‘ 'goodnight ’ to the group and went back to his own bedroom . |
| 20 | When they got back to the farmyard the Substitute had vanished . |
| 21 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 22 | When they got back to the flat , Mum emptied out all the vegetables and fruit and Pete took the box to his room . |
| 23 | And when they got back to the meadow , Lucie had sent all the people home , refusing every one of their eager tributes . |
| 24 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 25 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 26 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 27 | ‘ And now , ’ she said much later , as they got back into the car , ‘ for Lord Byron . |
| 28 | They went outside and as they got back into the Kubelwagen Devlin said , ‘ Crete and the Afrika Korps , I see , and Stalingrad . |
| 29 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 30 | As they got out of the car and walked across the yard , their feet scrunching on the stones , Jinny had a queer feeling that they were being watched . |