Example sentences of "get [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd have got out the padded shoulders and the four-inch heels had I known you were going to appear looking like someone whom Central Casting had sent to play — ’ her gaze flicked over his well-groomed appearance and immaculate suit ‘ — the Wall Street tycoon , ’ she said astringently . |
| 2 | She 's sure to have got out the best china and baked a meat pie or something . |
| 3 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 4 | When you get off the beaten track and talk to people , you find out what 's really going on beneath the surface that the visitors see , the intimate details ’ . |
| 5 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 6 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 7 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 8 | He got out the cheating stick and clipped the peg , swarming up in a daisy chain of quick-draws . |
| 9 | He got out the brown envelope and spread the photographs on his lap . |
| 10 | She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years . |
| 11 | Taking the piss and w he would n't get out the bloody way and I 'm trying to get through with that rack . |