Example sentences of "[noun] get [adv prt] on [art] " 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 | Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions . |
| 3 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 4 | P.U.M.P. : ‘ Barabajagal ( Love Is Hot ) ’ ( Ultimate ) out of the ashes of the Junior Manson Slags arrives Aqua Marina , with her Purple Under Melted Pink getting down on the dancefloor with a hot and sultry Donovan song . |
| 5 | Mo gets up on the top of them stands right up the top , spreads around there 's ! |
| 6 | John Matthias brought the filly with a customary late surge to get up on the line to beat Zadracarta , the Canadian challenger , a head . |
| 7 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 8 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 9 | What appears to be a mortar explosion close by causes the column to get down on the flooded ground . |
| 10 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 11 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 12 | Before the crowd could drift off , Cameron got up on the massive stone gate-post and called on them to swear an oath . |
| 13 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 14 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 15 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 16 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 17 | Apache gets in on the act |
| 18 | As the child gets older , other agencies get in on the act . |
| 19 | ‘ We would have preferred an earlier chance to get back on the rails , ’ admitted Thompson , whose side 's defeat ended a run of six consecutive wins . |
| 20 | Now when the Chancellor in the budget said that he would help the poor he stopped short , there were no copper bottomed no copper bottom guarantee and then later on we had Michael Portillo got in on the act . |
| 21 | Dyson got off on the wrong foot with Morris from the very beginning , even though Morris politely stopped writing while Bob introduced them , and sat back in his chair to look at Dyson . |
| 22 | Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us . |
| 23 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 24 | Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 . |
| 25 | Jones went like that to her and she 's , Cat 's following her you know and then Jones got up on the wall and Cat was looking at her and Cat was going like that and Jones was going chee chee like that and then , you know the fence there ? |
| 26 | For every 100,000 inhabitants , Belgium boasts 32 central bankers , France 31 , Germany 23 , America and Britain both 9 , while Japan gets by on a paltry 5 . |
| 27 | Chris Tavaré at first slip gets in on a piece of history . |
| 28 | The scope for an entrepreneur to get in on the ground floor and turn petrol stations into shops supplying parts and oils was obvious — to those with an eye for business . |
| 29 | Thankfully , the week after we whooped Chelsea to get back on the rails to that now famous title finale ( famous for us anyhow — right ? ) : - ) . |
| 30 | Gerry 's champing at the bit to get back on the box |