Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 2 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 3 | Lee must have got in by standing on a stone vase thing on the path . |
| 4 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 5 | Obviously he was the kind of man who could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory as if it had never happened , and get on with living in the present . |
| 6 | London has got to stop being so dependent on Dublin and get on with dealing with the problems of Northern Ireland — only five per cent of which are constitutional . ’ |
| 7 | Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Even before ministers get down to arguing over the details , they face a row about whether the proposed company statute can be approved by a majority vote ( as the commission would like ) or must be passed unanimously . |
| 9 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 10 | Getting up from rummaging in the wastepaper basket , she bumped her head , very lightly , on the sink . |
| 11 | Including such local luminaries as Marina Van Rooy ( left ) , singer of the sadly overlooked dance single ‘ Sly One ’ , DJ Mike Pickering , graphics star Grand Central Design , novelist Trevor Miller and ( if he ever gets round to posing for the cameras ) our very own correspondent John McCready , ‘ Faces North West ’ is an exhibition by Liverpool-based photographers Mark McNulty and Solon Papadopoulos . |
| 12 | You 've got ta get on without looking at the book , Grant . |
| 13 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 14 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 15 | And she can not get up without going on the phone . |