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

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1 It could be they have got out of the way of doing things that they used to enjoy .
2 I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter .
3 I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again .
4 Erm when you once y once you 've got out of the habit of sixteenths and thirty seconds , and things like that , you find that I mean , we found the other week , did n't you , that you were thinking , Oh these millimetres a bit of a pain .
5 ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I 've rather got out of the habit of talking to people . ’
6 ‘ Once you get out of the sight of land , one bit of sea is very much like another , ’ he said yesterday .
7 I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here .
8 Sometimes men get out of the control of their officers .
9 Everyone then gets out of the habit of going to the pub and goes to the ever-increasing competition such as McDonald 's or other fast food establishments .
10 So we need to think less of the state as getting out of the control of the legislature , and more of the state as getting out of the control of the dominant economic class .
11 So we need to think less of the state as getting out of the control of the legislature , and more of the state as getting out of the control of the dominant economic class .
12 I believe , well I do n't know about broken limbs there were four that survived it , got out of the back of the back of the van but erm they had serious burns and such .
13 Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden .
14 The next day , after the thirty-third night spent on the exitless side of a bed that was shoved up against a wall and that also housed a physiotherapist called Daphne , an air hostess called Olga , and Olga 's dopey Teddy bear , I got out of the bottom of the bed unheard and thought , No .
15 She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons .
16 If there is any restriction on movement , however slight , of the spine , hips and lower limbs , the person may be unable to get out of the way of a dangerous moving object with sufficient speed to prevent mishap .
17 The inquiry report said instead that he appeared to have walked off the track to get out of the way of the field of on-coming horses a finding strongly challenged by course officials .
18 Well the only reason you want to get out of here is to get out of the way of Indians
19 ‘ In a hurry to get out of the earl of Leicester 's reach , ’ Cadfael hazarded .
20 Because you have to get out of the premises of the people when they lock up .
21 All climbing up the stairs in one mad rush trying to get out of the hell-pit of the London Underground tunnels , after having escaped from the claustrophobic strangulating suffocating hold of the London Underground Tubes , marginally cleaner but less picturesque than those of New York .
22 As Pauly ( 1990 : p. 41 ) concluded , ‘ regulatory reforms designed to enhance market efficiency and institutional competitiveness … effectively provided distinct incentives for most banks to get out of the business of development finance ’ .
23 I invite er Mr and his supporters to get out of the age of Dickens and into the twentieth century .
24 ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it .
25 It 's good to get out of the atmosphere of a Home for a time . ’
26 I want us to get out of the habit of losing .
27 Instead of making chances for his colleagues , the Scot , as predicted , could n't get out of the habit of making for goal himself , so the attack was stifled of passes .
28 The right hon. Gentleman should get out of the habit of writing his supplementary questions before he hears the first answer .
29 This disconnection between aims and curricular plans seems to be an endemic disease of curricular planning and , unless amended , the National Curriculum will show that in the late twentieth century the policy makers still could n't get out of the rut of traditional thinking that has dogged education throughout this century .
30 Second will guarantee a UEFA place , and I think if Leeds can get out of the rut of drawing so many of their recent games they will attain this position .
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