Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] got [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 2 | I was n't the only one , but most of the others got out faster . |
| 3 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS got up again to say that an assistant to Dr Selikoff at Mount Sinai had told him they were unable to associate any increase in asbestos-related disease to exposure below 100 nanograms , while 100,000 was considered tolerable in a factory ! |
| 4 | It is not pleasant to read the account of the plot got up to entice Forster 's boyfriend Bob Buckingham away from his wife , and not difficult to agree with PC Daley 's description of the Forster circle as ‘ pimps ’ . |
| 5 | " One of the lightermen got off at Cadogan Stairs and walked back with her and gave her to Maurice . " |
| 6 | One of the girls got up to answer it and two well-dressed women came into the room . |
| 7 | Some of the boys got off and placed bombs on the trucks . |
| 8 | The police driver of the Porsche got out of the car and went around Signe to the kiosk . |
| 9 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 10 | At an officers council two of the lads got up to sing a duet at a free and easy sing-song after the intensity of the day . |
| 11 | Someone sitting at a table at the far end of the cafe got up and came over to them . |
| 12 | Most of the men got up to leave , shocked that the day had passed so quickly , that the cows were home already . |
| 13 | When news of the accident got out the hospital where sixteen of the children were being treated was flooded with calls from anxious parents . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The driver 's door opened and the man from the pub got in . |
| 16 | If all the do-gooders in the town got down to grass roots and worked towards a better future for the next generation , this town would be a better one to live in . |
| 17 | The a mini drew up and a young woman in a mini-skirt got out . |
| 18 | The man across the aisle got up to leave . |
| 19 | Plenty of housing if those stupid farts at the council got round to repairing it and stopped their tenants tearing apart what they have got . |
| 20 | Those who kept up at the front got back to the barracks first , got into the showers first , got dressed first , and were ready downstairs in combat kit for our first singing lesson with Sergeant Moustaine . |