Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 2 | ‘ But there are at Warwick and Kenilworth , and we have to go through Stratford to get there . ’ |
| 3 | To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world . |
| 4 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 5 | We have of course got here a speech about a human bond versus a larger loyalty . |
| 6 | But then again I would n't be up tha far up your arse I mean , like you sa , you must have found yourself a couple of times getting close to somebody and without realising it and then they |
| 7 | However , in every guild , in every livery company in the city , groups of merchants get together in some society . |
| 8 | So , when a group of setts near Brighton was to be partly destroyed by a new road , Dr Tim Roper and colleagues David Fee and Sean Christian at the University of Sussex got together with Dr Alex Tait of East Sussex County Council to carry out a ‘ rescue excavation ’ . |
| 9 | It is a diver 's paradise , and while it might cost a lot of pennies to get there , good value for money can be waiting — if you know what to watch out for . |
| 10 | Sir Hermann Bondi , chairman of NERC , says that Antarctic research , like space research , requires spending ‘ an awful lot of money to get there — and that is where the science begins ’ . |
| 11 | I lost all sense of direction getting here . ’ |
| 12 | It was a test of manhood to get as close as possible to the board without a fin raking across your back . |
| 13 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 14 | The Kent Spring Rally on 1 March might have been a total ‘ white-out ’ but for the admirable spirit of Kent members , who ploughed their way through a freshly deposited six-inch fall of snow to get there . |
| 15 | A combined force of commandos got there just in time and blew the base to smithereens , finally blowing up the overhang on top of the smoking remains . |
| 16 | In February 1990 , Rod Sorge and some other members of Act-Up got together with Jon Parker and occupied the intersection of Essex and Delancey , another copping block on the Lower East Side . |
| 17 | Women hit the bottle as pressure of work gets too much |
| 18 | I can realise my stock and pay twenty bob in the pound if I go into voluntary liquidation now , before Masters of Notts gets deeper into trouble . |
| 19 | in it for a , for a couple of years to get as much as they can and get a |
| 20 | It is not a place you can just go to for the day and therefore you need to spend at least a couple of days getting there overnight , coming back again and er , for a family of four I calculate that even taking one 's own car across the Channel , the average cost for a family of four , is of the order of five or six hundred pounds . |
| 21 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 22 | You have to go across a lot of water to get there . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Just a clutch of Britons getting together in a pub nothing to do with Langley . ’ |
| 24 | I think that Rocky & Deane will have a good enough rest of season to get then squad places |
| 25 | A gruelling test of endurance not only at the competition … but also a test of endurance to get there . |
| 26 | There was a whole lot of paper getting there , getting papers and someone else but the lady in red actually was getting groceries as well so of course that takes time . |
| 27 | It should be getting at the truth quickly and at the moment , there 's an awful lot of paper to get there . |
| 28 | When you start talking about arguments in literature , conceptualising , generalising , a lot of people get rather lost , one would have to admit that . |
| 29 | Neither is it that tonics are not requested ; large numbers of people get as far as the doctor 's surgery to complain of tiredness , lethargy and mild depression , and even larger numbers go straight to the chemist . |
| 30 | ‘ A lot of people get really worried about what other people are doing . |