Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 2 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 8 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 9 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 10 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 11 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 19 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 20 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 23 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 24 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
| 25 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 26 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | I was one of 15 who got through to the third stage which is a five day winter course . |