Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 2 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 3 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 6 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 7 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 8 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 9 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 10 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 11 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 12 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 13 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 14 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 15 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 16 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 17 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 18 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 19 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 20 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 21 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 22 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 23 | I was one of 15 who got through to the third stage which is a five day winter course . |
| 24 | Allan got away to the best start and led for the opening thirty metres ( the commentators were going berserk ! ) . |
| 25 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 26 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 27 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 28 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 29 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 30 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |