Example sentences of "[noun sg] get out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the woman driver got out of the car she went to intervene between the two men . |
| 2 | The driver got out of the car . |
| 3 | Car got out of control . |
| 4 | A familiar figure got out of the bus and walked straight to the cab rank . |
| 5 | Chant got out of the car and opened Estabrook 's door . |
| 6 | If a confrontation gets out of hand , the damage to agency/client relations could be devastating . |
| 7 | The Bill is one of a wide range of urgent measures that we are taking to stop the plague of car crime getting out of hand . |
| 8 | Rent a jeep to get out onto small tracks which uncover some beautiful waterfalls and rock formations . |
| 9 | Fran tried to step past him , but he just stood where he was , making no attempt to get out of her way while he continued to study her in a way that made her suddenly self-conscious . |
| 10 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 11 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |
| 12 | It would n't have been so bad , of course , if it had only been him , but there was that second-year nurse whom she had accused of loitering with him in the corridor — that was going to take some fancy footwork to get out of without loss of face . |
| 13 | Well regarded for its colour-illustrated articles by noted authors , many from the museum field , the journal had a devoted following of around 10,000 subscribers , but needed a cash infusion to get out of the red . |
| 14 | Jumped ‘ The gunman got out of a window and must have jumped at least 25 feet to the ground . |
| 15 | Ianthe was glad when the woman and her child got out at the next station , for not only did she find the conversation embarrassing but she also wanted to think about the moments before her unexpected meeting with Agnes Dalby — moments which she had so far had no chance of reliving or considering . |
| 16 | What kept her from coming down to bathe and witness the enjoyment her child got out of being on the seashore ? |
| 17 | When a child gets out of line in assembly and the teacher shouts ‘ Do n't you understand English or are you just stupid ’ , or when Indian parents who do come to speak to teachers are laughed at or rebuffed , children both black and white learn just how Indians are thought of by people who matter . |
| 18 | An example saw the head of the household getting out of his bed at midnight on 13th May , filling his mouth with black beans and then spitting them to the floor , saying : |
| 19 | In characteristic style , Professor Tweedie is determined to stamp on loose interpretation now , before the issue gets out of hand , and is not beyond threatening to throw an encyclopaedia of rules at the profession if it can not be trusted to follow the spirit of the ASB 's principles . |
| 20 | Hardest unimportant question to get out of my mind : that Nalgo ad about the poll tax — how come she 's got a staircase in her kitchen ? |
| 21 | Life just had to be raced and there really was no way of climbing through the lavatory window to get out of it . |
| 22 | Her temperature was not falling as rapidly as had been expected , and this , he feared , had been caused by her determination to get out of bed too soon . |
| 23 | Souness , while hugely relieved that his team got out of jail , was furious with the goals they leaked — with Wright and James the prime culprits . |
| 24 | I shuffled into the room got out of the doorway and the light was turned on , I ca n't remember with whether I turned it on or whether P C turned it on . |
| 25 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 26 | Salim gets out of Africa , and as he does so , there seem to be allusions to the journey upriver in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , which also ends ( though by no means hopefully ) with an Intended . |
| 27 | When a population gets out of balance with its environment disaster occurs : starvation , ecological collapse , and ultimately , the population falls upon itself for a bit of frantic nibbling and other distressed rat-type behaviour . |
| 28 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 29 | have a job getting out of them and er you know more or less the higher chair 's |
| 30 | Françoise Cribier finds one reason for the remarkable exodus of retired couples from Paris is that both man and wife need the husband to get out of the house . |