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

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1 After getting on Top of the Pops you know the kind of music we play , nothing would surprise us any more I do n't think .
2 The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care .
3 According to the BBC , the only chance Bunter has of getting on television again would be to update Greyfriars into something like a public school version of Grange Hill .
4 ‘ I get the biggest buzz out of getting on stage .
5 I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time .
6 Well if he keeps , if he looks after the car and keeps himself right och it 'll be okay but if he 's gon na mess about and wreck the car well he 's he 's no way of getting to work .
7 This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university .
8 The Invasion from Mars certainly contains some graphic case notes , such as the spinster who believed humanity deserved destruction for being too hedonistic ; and the unemployed young man who thought that this finally scuppered his chance of getting to college and work .
9 The other sister was er in High Wycombe , and the other one was in er Well she was in Creith for a number of years , And then she moved south because she was n't musical and there was no chance of getting of headmistresship in Scotland if you had n't got music .
10 If the following method of getting into Word does not apply exactly to the way your machine is set up , use your manual .
11 ‘ I was working in the BBC pensions department and had short-lived aspirations of getting into TV .
12 We 'd also had a double income and shared paying the bills , and I found I was petrified of getting into debt .
13 If you 're thinking of getting into shape , take it easy and build up slowly — a frantic training programme greatly increases risk of over-use injury .
14 ‘ And the health benefits of getting into shape are immeasurable . ’
15 But instead of getting into bed , he gets into another suit , God save us , and says he 's going out again .
16 The business of getting into costume and make-up and then giving his performance as the father in Malcolm Harris 's The Hooded Owl meant that details like confrontations with murderers would have to wait .
17 But his 11-year-old pal panicked because he was frightened of getting into trouble , it was revealed yesterday .
18 Intermediate Treatment is meant to help not only children in trouble but those at risk of getting into trouble .
19 But Burck 's Deutsche Passion was the earliest German motet-Passion and it had the distinction of getting into print , in 1568 , before either of Walter 's .
20 His view of Ireland , a highly romanticised one , had been initiated by his reading of Heinrich Böll 's Irisches Tagebuch which , coincidentally , I had just read as a way of getting into German again after two decades of neglect .
21 If the prospect of getting into advertising seems daunting , do n't despair .
22 THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING OFF TERRITORY
23 Less has been heard from mothers for many of whom maintenance is their only chance of getting off benefit .
24 Although the chances of getting off track so early on are remote , we must confirm our position .
25 The good news is that there is a simple and enjoyable way of getting in trim and keeping your weight within its ideal range without resorting to munching lettuce and drinking carrot juice all the time .
26 Unfortunately , most of the material which is sent in comes from people who have no other way of getting in touch with us , or who are unable to seek the advice of professional songwriters or publishers .
27 We were not very successful in doing this , although an officer of the Department , U Sein Ywet , was charged with the task of getting in touch with abbots and monks .
28 I feel very strongly that there are a lot of people who do n't have the money and have no way of getting in touch with their husband , no way of forcing them to pay up .
29 erm and have postcodes in Erm are very good ways of getting in touch with local organizations .
30 I was thinking of getting in touch .
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