Example sentences of "[prep] get out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After getting out of the cab , I looked round and saw what looked like a car upside down on fire .
2 After getting out of the car she bent over and pushed open the gate , then closed it behind her , walked up the short path and rang the doorbell .
3 After getting out of his car he was attacked by the youths , who were in their late teens and wore dark clothing .
4 Or has this whole summer for Mansell been a fabrication of what he really felt , a means of getting out of his Ferrari contract by saying he was quitting and then holding Williams to ransom after they had backed themselves into a corner ?
5 For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate .
6 In their generosity , or relief of getting out of the kitchen , they ply me with bag loads of organic vegetables .
7 It has asked the Department of Trade and Industry for approval to set up a vehicle to provide names with a way of getting out of open years .
8 But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation .
9 Or else she and her husband would find some way of getting out of Russia and would share the entrancing hardship of starting afresh in the West .
10 If the fish did attack and he missed with his spear , Trent knew that his chances of getting out of the water in one piece were nil .
11 My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion .
12 Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time .
13 If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small .
14 Before the Guardianship Act of 1943 , the RCM had next to no real power to restrain a youngster who showed signs of getting out of control .
15 Get into the habit first of feeling the sheer thrill and exhilaration of getting out of doors away from telephones , noise , and distractions .
16 The conservatory is light and airy , but remains sufficiently shaded to prevent summer temperatures of getting out of hand .
17 At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop .
18 I think black kids look towards sport as a means of achievement or a means of getting out of society .
19 The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room .
20 Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest .
21 And the TARDIS is our best hope of getting out of here . ’
22 That 's what I said , excellent , that 's a crafty way of getting out of it , good .
23 ‘ The idea of getting out of bed to paint these people kills me ’ , he says .
24 ‘ The idea of getting out of bed to paint these people kills me ’
25 He saw her look from him to the key , judging the distance , assessing the possibility of getting out of the room alive , and smiled inwardly .
26 But if I know our Emily , she 'll have found some way of getting out of City Europe .
27 It decreases the possibility of , of getting out of that situation because you 've got so many other people against , against whom you 're competing for work .
28 While you 're here do n't say it , and we might all stand a chance of getting out of here alive .
29 Hopefully , it 'll give some severely disabled people a means of getting out of the bath without having to rely on another person . ’
30 the war effort was really erm a way of getting out of erm away from home because the women were erm , found themselves left on their own
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