Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall get on with the work and have a sweep out and tidy up , and I 'll have the fire lit and the bone broth on before she gets home . |
| 2 | ‘ You will kindly get on to the telephone and call up your revolutionary children . |
| 3 | So there I am , during this rather romantic conversation , toying with the little hairs in it 's ears , not knowing whether I should try and get in through the snout or what — but it had a happy ending . |
| 4 | He was polite but distant after that for the rest of the week , and there was no suggestion that they should get together in the evening or over the weekend . |
| 5 | We can , however , get down with the children and start a process of learning , discovery , which can last a lifetime if you like , finding out what different people believe , finding out how other people cope , maybe by just talking to grandparents who 've experienced the war , asking them how they 've coped . |
| 6 | When there were , the engine driver would stop the train and get out of his cab and shoo them off , and sometimes he 'd wait so that everyone could get down from the carriages and stretch their legs and pick blackberries before they set off again . |
| 7 | Well the agent , that be either or any agent who , who the ship belonged to , see they 'd , they 'd get through , no doubt they 'd get through to the merchants and er they 'd find out who the agent is and once they knew the agents well it was plain sailing was n't it ? |
| 8 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 9 | As a matter of fact there 's pride , pride in that a picture can get away from the lollipops and still be inoffensive and commercially pleasing . |
| 10 | If you follow course one , you 'll get off with a caution or three months ’ community work . |
| 11 | If it was Atherton he 'd never get up into the wood and back before his Dad carne home . |
| 12 | One might have hoped Frodo would get up on a block and speak to everybody , impose his will . |
| 13 | And there was pain as well as pride in working right to the end , as did the 99-year-old Suffolk widow who ‘ worked on the land all her life ’ or the Derbyshire midwife in her eighties who still ‘ would get up in the night and walk miles to attend a confinement . ’ |
| 14 | Occasionally I 'd get up in the morning and there he 'd be in the kitchen , eating furiously , as if he did n't know where his next grub was coming from , as if each day was an adventure that could end anywhere . |
| 15 | Nobody will come looking for you if you do n't get up in the morning or fail to appear for a 9 o'clock lecture . |
| 16 | We said , ‘ We 'd better get back to the hotel and try to figure out this country in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Right , let's get back to the clubhouse and ring the police . |
| 20 | Let's get back to the dynamism and outlook of the men who built our great and marvellous sewers . |
| 21 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 22 | Despite the rigours of the time , whenever there was a stand-down aircrews — generally headed by Canadians — would get out on the airfield and they would mark out a pitch and play baseball . |
| 23 | Many otherwise inexplicable early divorces are about proving that one person can get out of a trap and another can let him or her go . |
| 24 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 25 | If he is that much of a wimp , why does he not get out of the road and let us take over ? |
| 26 | There she would get out of the train and the system . |
| 27 | Terrified that Nick would say no , he was n't happy at all , and that their mother would get out of the train and go back to the house and pack their things and take them away . |
| 28 | Of course , we can not just get out of the routines and struggles and problems we are already engaged in . |
| 29 | He did not immediately get out of the car but turned and looked at Sara . |
| 30 | The lettering on the bag looks too garish for the occasion , but at least wo n't get out of the car and find the remnants of her life spilling out into the gutter . |