Example sentences of "got [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 2 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 3 | We got up the top there . |
| 4 | pass the train station , got up the train station on the left |
| 5 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 6 | As it there could be other victims out there who never got up the courage to come forward |
| 7 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 8 | I started the engine , got up the anchor , and we were under way . |
| 9 | When they got back the airport hotel seemed like home but his money was running out . |
| 10 | When he got back the house looked empty . |
| 11 | Next morning Jenna inspected the garage and determinedly got out the bike . |
| 12 | Everything that you got out the Cooperative was writ down in this book |
| 13 | That the gulf existed was something she had known all along , so what she had overheard and the realisation it brought with it should n't be causing tears to prick behind her eyes as she opened the cupboard in the study that adjoined Faye and Bill 's bedroom , and got out the testing kit she had come for . |
| 14 | Uncle Albert made the drinks and got out the biscuit tin . |
| 15 | As he turned on the hot-water tap and got out the dish detergent , Hank abandoned the idea of going back to his garage . |
| 16 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 17 | I got out the bed at five and twenty to eleven and the curtains were still drawn and I thought oh my God ! |
| 18 | Then he changed , he got out the chess-board and we played chess and he let me beat him . |
| 19 | Fish done , spuds on , she got out the asparagus and found they were plastic ! |
| 20 | Gareth broke his leg while he was clearing snow in 1982 and the milk from the herd of Guernseys could not be got away , so Rachel got out the separator and sold cream locally . |
| 21 | We looked at him , then at each other and finally I got out the lip salve and said ‘ OK , it 's showtime ! ’ and Kim said : ‘ Whatever do you mean ? ’ |
| 22 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |
| 23 | She wondered what they would make of it as she got out the vacuum cleaner and started to run it over the drawing-room carpet . |
| 24 | She looked at me and put her finger to her lips , then got out the broom and began to sweep up the crumbs . |
| 25 | He got out the 1-iron and drilled the ball low all the way round . |
| 26 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 27 | He heard electrical impulses behind a large , old-fashioned enamelled flour bin on a high shelf in the kitchen and got out the step-ladder to investigate , bringing down the bin , which hit and broke a jar of clear honey in its descent ; he ended up with a mixture of flour and honey all over himself , the fridge and the floor . |
| 28 | I got out the file that Inspector Redpath had given me , and studied it . |
| 29 | Without answering , she got out the frying pan and began to do him bacon and eggs . |
| 30 | When news of the accident got out the hospital where sixteen of the children were being treated was flooded with calls from anxious parents . |