Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 2 | Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see . |
| 3 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 4 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 5 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 6 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 7 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 8 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 9 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 10 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 11 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 12 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 13 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 14 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 15 | Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday . |
| 16 | I got off with a lot of things . |
| 17 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
| 18 | Oxford United got off to a flyer at Notts County thanks to a goal after only eight minutes from Nick Cusack … |
| 19 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 20 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I got home with a couple of bags and discovered a horror of horrors . |
| 22 | ‘ You know I love you , ’ he said when he got home after a month in Rimini and San Marino . |
| 23 | Sitting in the dreary Independence Hotel in Tehran late at night , McFarlane fuming in his room , the rest of the party had got on to a conversation about radars . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 25 | Today the two teams end the Eighties in opposition again and , to mark the occasion , fans of both teams have got together in a spirit of goodwill and charity . |
| 26 | Got up for a wee in the night . |
| 27 | Got up like a tart with her new frocks and her jewellery and all that muck on her face , and not a bleeding thing to do all day long but watch that colour telly and ring up her pals . |
| 28 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 29 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 30 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |