Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out .
2 Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm .
3 Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had !
4 Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina ,
5 The Bar examinations should , of course , be got out of the way before pupillage commences , for you can not do two things at once .
6 The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames .
7 ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday .
8 The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash .
9 Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night .
10 Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on .
11 A woman and three children got up from the table as I entered the room .
12 I had learnt how to take orders and get up in the morning since I had gone to boarding school at age seven .
13 Most of that chlorine gets up into the atmosphere because of our activities , particularly our use of CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) , and other chlorine-based gases .
14 We are just under one inch taller on getting up in the morning than we are on going to bed at night .
15 From safety she could notify the authorities of Travis 's whereabouts and still get out of the country before he caught up .
16 Lydia felt the need to remove herself , as people who stay in hotels get out of the way when the poor chambermaids come to make the beds .
17 I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling .
18 Get back to the river lest the Mamur Zapt come and find no one there . ’
19 Get back to the boat before we 're overrun ! ’
20 yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting .
21 She escaped by getting out of the vehicle while it was moving .
22 ‘ Do you mind getting out of the way while I serve the lady , ’ he stormed .
23 If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who
24 Getting back to the briefing if you would Sergeant .
25 Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view .
26 Philip ran back down to the bit of broken fencing , climbed through and got back into the kitchen as the local news ended .
27 I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case .
28 Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair .
29 Let us get on with the scheme because there is no reason for further delay .
30 ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm .
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