Example sentences of "got [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 2 | Those who escaped these earliest of water-rates could be deemed to have got off ‘ scot free ’ . |
| 3 | A quiet word here and there usually lets the player know he has n't got off Scot -free . |
| 4 | But recently a lot more interesting projects , such as the University of the Third Age ( address on page 148 ) had got off the ground , and she was enjoying two of the courses being run locally . |
| 5 | Monod , by his collaboration with Coque , at least left a name in the automotive industry , but who today ever gives a thought to Le Chassis , without whose basic contribution to the theory of tetracyclic separation that industry would never have got off the ground ? |
| 6 | And so the Blue Skies project — or to use its more prosaic name , the Venture Research Unit , got off the ground . |
| 7 | The government in London was kept well informed of what was happening and the rebellion might never have got off the ground but for the effects of the Act of Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland , which came into effect on 1 May 1707 . |
| 8 | Other considerations were his wanting to make another American film and because the project had got off the ground due to its big Hollywood stars . |
| 9 | ‘ The whole thing might not have ever got off the ground if Maxi Priest had n't been in the same room as them when I called up . |
| 10 | In the process , job evaluation could terminally undermine clinical grading , making a new system virtually redundant before it has even got off the ground . |
| 11 | ‘ You have paid me for the ring , a little , ’ he said aloud , and got off the bed , leaving her in disorder . |
| 12 | At Mohnyin ten convalescent officers and twenty-eight men , the two faithful sergeants and myself got off the hospital train and made for the hospital of the BCMS where Dr Russell and the two nursing sisters took us all in and gave medical treatment to those needing it . |
| 13 | There are still a lot of decisions to be taken before a successful timeshare operation can be ‘ got off the ground ’ , and the real challenge in this case is to work out what these are . |
| 14 | When I returned indoors Dad asked me if Granny had got off all right . |
| 15 | In the circumstances , a construction of fabric over a wire-braced framework of wood or bamboo was logical and efficient , and sometimes , nothing else would have got off the ground with the power available . |
| 16 | And Russia is , after all , where the first English joint-stock company , of the sort whose shares we would recognise on the market today , got off the ground . |
| 17 | Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there . |
| 18 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 19 | Jones , making the most of his promotion in the order , now shared a partnership of 173 with Moody who , perhaps uniquely , got off the mark with a five ( two plus three overthrows ) . |
| 20 | So in the evening , after supper , Clara walked off by herself and caught the Métro and got off it at the Place Pigalle , for that was the only name on the Métro map that she recognized . |
| 21 | When on one occasion a young Indian student approached him and asked if he was T. S. Eliot , he looked up at her in alarm , agreed that he was , and got off the bus . |
| 22 | Had the Norton-logoed products got off the ground , sales could have reached millions . |
| 23 | The economic recession and the sharp rise in unemployment of that year forced the Conservative government to change its policies before they had got off the ground . |
| 24 | They 'd all got off the bus together ; this one had gone into a truckers ’ cafe for cigarettes and a carton of coffee . |
| 25 | Erm but I you know I do n't know that that was a got off the ground very well . |
| 26 | I mean wh where they , anybody was arrested they mainly got off you know . |
| 27 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 28 | She had got off the boat and was looking for the way out . |
| 29 | After all — had n't one of the things that had made it so difficult to get over Tony been the fact that he 'd got off scot-free ? |
| 30 | ‘ But I 've only just got off the plane , ’ insisted Crawford . |