Example sentences of "get [adv] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 4 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 5 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 9 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
| 10 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 12 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 13 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 14 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |
| 15 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 16 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 17 | no you have to get yourself up with your four legs , you 've got four legs so you can get up , that 's it , just , that 's how horses get up on the front legs first , then the back , that 's right |
| 18 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 19 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 20 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 22 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 23 | What appears to be a mortar explosion close by causes the column to get down on the flooded ground . |
| 24 | to get down on the other platform and to wave , |
| 25 | To get in on the educational field one must parrot the latest jargon even if it is rejected by ‘ one ’ . |
| 26 | The French believed that as smugglers in rowing boats constantly managed to get ashore on the English coast , an invasion fleet , given a favourable southerly wind and a calm , dark night , should be able to do the same , and hoped to use some of these clandestine sailors as pilots . |
| 27 | We must get off on the right foot . ’ |
| 28 | Try to get off on the right foot ? ’ |
| 29 | I 've enjoyed my four years at Widnes but I think a change of clubs will help me get back on the international scene , ’ said Tait , 27 , who has agreed a three-year contract with the Headingley club . |
| 30 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |