Example sentences of "[adv] get [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) .
2 He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit .
3 After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m .
4 The young German eventually got in front with seven laps remaining when Senna 's McLaren appeared to develop a technical problem , Schumacher squeezing past at the final hairpin .
5 When customers unsurprisingly got into trouble , it obligingly increased its advances .
6 ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) .
7 After half-an-hour of this sort of thing , it suddenly began to dawn on everybody that Mr Clarke had only got to clause one of the actual legislation .
8 And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it .
9 You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road .
10 This way where good job we 've only got as minute .
11 Well it takes , I mean if to start off with you 've got ta get rich peasants to save some surplus and then see he 's not gon na invest every single surplus in one year cos the harvest next year might be no good so you 've got the sort of vagaries of the Chinese weather situation so you 've obviously got ta sort of stock up
12 So we 've literally got to dove-tail this into whatever other current arrangements they have , including any other P H I they 've already got .
13 Maggie knew that many of her school-friends admired Phoebe ; they thought she was rather splendid , especially since they had all got into ecology , but this did not help Maggie .
14 but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one
15 If so get in touch with Steve Hack on Farnham 725224 every Monday and we 'll give you some free publicity .
16 Stupid things , she thought , she 'll only get into trouble , snogging at break , honestly .
17 And right now the term competitiveness is used to basically get by safety regulations and anything else concerning safety .
18 I do n't know how long I 'll be — you 'd much better get off home . ’
19 ‘ You 'd better get into bed . ’
20 Come on , you 'd better get to bed if you 're going to take us to England tomorrow .
21 Karen shouted anxiously , ‘ You two better get on deck , I 've got the liferaft loose . ’
22 ‘ Perhaps I 'd better get in touch with him .
23 I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty .
24 The talks , repeatedly postponed since April 8 apparently because of failure to agree an agenda , soon got into difficulty , although it was reported on May 9 that the MNR had made a concession in allowing relief columns through to Mozambican refugees in Malawi .
25 By the time negotiations finally got under way at Fontainebleau , elections for the new Constituent Assembly in France had resulted in a victory for the Catholic MRP , with the Communists in second place , and heavy losses for the French Socialist party .
26 But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all .
27 I finally got in touch with the distributor and explained what was going on .
28 ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I just got into town and she said if ever I was here , I should look you up . ’
29 ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’
30 And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up .
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