Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
6 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
7 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
17 | He will do if he gets it into his head but he got in trouble you see , got in with the wrong crowd and |
18 | I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver . |
19 | 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 |
20 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
21 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
25 | That 's what I did — got off on the wrong foot . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
28 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
29 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
30 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |