Example sentences of "getting [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wire balloon should be fitted into the top of each downpipe to prevent birds nesting and debris getting down the pipe |
| 2 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 3 | It was worse than ever getting up the companion , much worse than last time . |
| 4 | Much may be blamed on the impermeable Alan Beith , who has been at Berwick since 1973 and thinks nothing to striding round five villages , after starting on Holy Island in the sort of rain that suggests God getting out the strap , and then darting up to Duns in what was Berwickshire , Scotland , to do a broadcast . |
| 5 | I keep getting out the video and watching it . |
| 6 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 7 | I would like the walk and it would save Alex getting out the car . ’ |
| 8 | Getting out the vote was a perennial problem in any kind of election , for many lairds could find plenty of excuses to avoid a tedious journey to the shire town . |
| 9 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |