Example sentences of "get [vb pp] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 2 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 3 | words , some future researched , that the printer here , missed that bit , you know , she should have said , and her mother 's name , but her mother 's got missed out on the proofs or something , I do n't , this is the kind of thing that happens , of course . |
| 4 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 5 | Filth , dust , pollution , children getting run over on the roads , road traffic . |
| 6 | Now they get knocked down on the roads . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 8 | I suggest that the Secretary of State take a little time to read our new document , ’ London : a strategy for transport ’ , which might help him and his colleagues to get sorted out on the need for better transport in the capital city . |
| 9 | Er with this instruction , it will get picked up on the quality |
| 10 | ‘ We wholeheartedly support pedestrianisation but I am concerned that our buses could get bottled up on the ringroad , ’ he said . |
| 11 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 12 | The object of the game from here is to get established out on the left on the slab , but a swine of a bulge bars access to it . |
| 13 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |
| 14 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |