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Example sentences of "get off [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	get off the wave either by sailing down ahead of it or by slowing down and letting it pass under you .
2	If you travel to Japan , one major difficulty will loom at you as soon as you get off the aeroplane : the language problem .
3	Get off the desk .
4	They shouted at me ’ Get off the platform — we do n't want to know about your fucking problems ’ .
5	‘ If you ca n't stand the heat , get off the beach ’
6	( This was trumpeted under the holiday industry 's unofficial motto ‘ if you ca n't stand the heat , get off the beach ’ . )
7	New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark .
8	Their duty is to tell blacks that although group political activism can stop discrimination , growing rich , wise and safe is then up to the individual — to hammer home a message of homework , punctuality , saving and self-discipline , the things that helped America 's immigrants get off the floor .
9	‘ We get off the stop after Salute , ’ he said warmly , as if pleased at her awed silence as she took in the building 's perfection .
10	Now get off the phone , Robert , for Christ 's sake . ’
11	This was condemned in western countries , but feeling against jews was common everywhere : Freud 's father had his hat knocked off by a Gentile who shouted at him ‘ Jew , get off the pavement ’ , and Jewish shops were smashed by miners in Tredegar in 1911 .
12	The driver calls ‘ Loving ’ and I get off the bus … ’
13	The only memories are of the long walk down from Parkhead Cross where we get off the bus we 've taken along the Gallowgate from the centre of town .
14	It is not short for " Come on , get off the bus " !
15	I go to my nephew 's for tea on Saturday afternoons and if the weather 's not too bad I get off the bus in Glenfair Road and walk down the Drive .
16	Once at Stonham the primary school pupils get off the bus leaving room downstairs which is soon filled by some of the people who have been sitting upstairs .
17	At Richmond a lot of people get off the train and I take refuge in a Smoking compartment where the heat is not on .
18	Shove my dreams and my Walkman back into the bag , and get off the train .
19	When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train .
20	For me it begins to be noticeable at the railway station where I get off the train each evening , and becomes gradually stronger , like a magnetic field , as I walk up the hill .
21	He could n't hear anything , but he could see his father covered in pollen and then he had watched the actress get off the train and a lot of kissing and hugging , and everyone behaving the way theatre people always did behave .
22	We learnt the next day he had had to hand in his uniform and get off the job as fast as he could .
23	‘ Get off the boat , ’ I said .
24	The way in which community care projects get off the ground quickly is to have a small project team of three or four people with the task of steering it through from start to finish , working under the guidance of a strong chairman .
25	They are to share in a grant of around £12,500 donated by the Ireland Fund in Canada to help new integrated projects get off the ground .
26	Somehow , he had never thought that Hess had had this in him , he 'd never thought the flight would ever — to coin a phrase — get off the ground .
27	’ Course y 'll hafta get off the ship , ’ she said .
28	The mob , more demonised than human , took up the cry : ‘ If you are the Son of God , get off the cross . ’
29	Do n't let any of this worry you ; it just means we 've added your ‘ short ’ address form so you can post to and get off the list when you want to .
30	There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are .