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

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1 ‘ From the way both drivers got out from their vehicles and looked ready to tear each other apart , I doubt it , ’ Ven answered , and halted at her bedroom door .
2 Many readers wrote about the good old days , before kids got out of hand or wild teenagers stole cars for ‘ joyrides ’ .
3 FOUR HARLEM kids get out of bed : the fat one ; the hard one ; the cute one ; the aspiring hip-hop DJ .
4 In the later stages of cooling however both the inside and the outside behave elastically and thus their contractions get out of step .
5 Fathers who tell their boys that they will be engineers may be delighted with their success rate , at least initially ( many such sons subsequently flood into business schools to get out of engineering ) .
6 The President 's got the authority to tell these assholes to get out of here and leave it to you and me .
7 We would n't look very smart if we had simply given up and allowed some precious Galapagos species to become extinct , by letting the introduced animals get out of control . ’
8 It 's even worse You have to climb up steps to get out of that station .
9 break her legs to get out of them !
10 I invite er Mr and his supporters to get out of the age of Dickens and into the twentieth century .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Suddenly she felt angry with herself for having let her emotions get out of control .
14 He said they were helped by gypsies to get out of Romania and through Hungary .
15 This is a novel of talk and opinions got out of books , and at one stage Dostoevsky proposed ‘ NB .
16 ‘ The loyalists got out to Jamaica Street and launched a major attack .
17 AN ENTIRE village football team was arrested when victory celebrations got out of hand .
18 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 .
19 It is impossible to prove that the rivalries thus engendered endured , or that the king subsequently failed to impose himself on his major followers , favouring some individuals at the expense of others , and allowing his officials to get out of hand , all at the expense of national unity .
20 As Pauly ( 1990 : p. 41 ) concluded , ‘ regulatory reforms designed to enhance market efficiency and institutional competitiveness … effectively provided distinct incentives for most banks to get out of the business of development finance ’ .
21 And I tell you what , it took me probably another couple of years to get out of that .
22 What advantages will they and the other operators get out of it ?
23 ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’
24 His pal , Oliver Callaghan , 15 , also from Long Levens , said : ‘ Things got out of hand , but it 's been fantastic . ’
25 ‘ Look , ’ said Masklin , before things got out of hand .
26 Things got out of hand . ’
27 Things got out of control , ’ he said slowly .
28 Jenna answered before things got out of hand .
29 Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) .
30 Frank Howard , defending , said : ‘ The defendant made a stupid act of bravado , but things got out of hand . ’
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