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

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1 ‘ You gave me lots of reasons to get out and about .
2 The edifice was short lived : on the day of the opening ceremony , the assembled crowd of visitors got out of control during the festivities and dismantled the building , reducing it to the great heap of stones to be seen today .
3 Little prospects of boats getting out .
4 The principle is , of course , the essence of biological control : the introduction of the predators or other pests of plants getting out of control may lead to their collapse in numbers .
5 And I tell you what , it took me probably another couple of years to get out of that .
6 More influential , and more in conformity with Keynesian orthodoxy , were those economists who argued that income restraint was necessary to bring unemployment and inflation into balance , and to prevent Britain 's balance of payments getting out of hand as rising wages led us to import goods we could ill afford while making it more difficult to sell things .
7 Mr Llambias believes that many potential mergers founder because news of talks gets out , pointing to past examples such as Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen , Touche Ross and De-loittes UK and Clark Pixley and Temple Gothard .
8 For the authorities , it ensures that only a relatively sanitized version of events gets out ; for the authors , it means that they do not have to perjure themselves , and has the additional benefit that the gaps — and consequently the restraints under which they have had to work — are obvious to their readers .
9 As the bus arrived at the airport a shooting brake drew up and a party of nuns got out of it .
10 It 's so easy for problems to get out of proportion — most conflicts can be overcome by thoughtful action .
11 Thus , it is possible for things to get out of a black hole .
12 ‘ Then you 've got the jokers who sleep under lorries to get out of the rain .
13 Jenna answered before things got out of hand .
14 A little later a car drove up and two women in veils got out and joined me .
15 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 .
16 The two-year-old was snatched to safety by his quick-thinking dad Bob seconds before the off-target skydiver swooped down , frantically yelling at crowds to get out of the way .
17 Persistent attempts by fans to get out of such areas and into the opposition 's area is one of the most common reasons for their arrest or ejection from the ground .
18 He said they were helped by gypsies to get out of Romania and through Hungary .
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