Example sentences of "[verb] get [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the specific association behind each of these works , generally commissioned from Arnold for particular events or celebrations , has got in the way of their wider circulation . |
| 2 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 3 | for all the time that we have to sit behind you when we 're trying to drive around blowing our horns going get out the way . |
| 4 | Nothing and no one is going to get in the way of that dream . |
| 5 | Well that is a very difficult one for anybody who erm has to try and sort out the ideological , tribal , personal rivalries in Uganda and to answer the question of whether these are going to get in the way of some sort of erm coherent government policy and political stability . |
| 6 | The war , Father , tends to get in the way . ’ |
| 7 | What have we got to get on the way home ? |
| 8 | But for those who do n't share his views , the crude sloganeering keeps getting in the way of a good time . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had done all six , my new film would have got in the way and I never would have wanted to hold the Darling Buds cast up . |
| 10 | Fribble was not really very much of a loss to this expedition , because he would only have got in the way , falling asleep at important meetings ( Lugh liked meetings ) , and eating all of their supplies . |
| 11 | Now , though , having to live again in a world where ideals were something to be discussed by intellectuals and certain priests , but never applied , as they would have got in the way of Horemheb 's programme of reform , Huy found his feelings dulled . |
| 12 | She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a social habit that started to get in the way . ’ |
| 14 | But you , you , you 're an interplanetary artiste — ’ She said this very carefully , it was getting hard to speak properly , her tongue kept getting in the way . |
| 15 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 16 | But for some reason the thought of dark , obsidian eyes and a powerful , muscular body kept getting in the way . |
| 17 | I did n't want to get in the way . |
| 18 | Remarkable special effects tend to get in the way of the story . |
| 19 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 20 | Nothing was allowed to get in the way . |
| 21 | For Erlich not much was allowed to get in the way of a job and he supposed that was why he had been sent . |
| 22 | Make your criticisms by all means but I hope that SRN is not joining the worst of our tabloid press where facts are never allowed to get in the way of a good story . |
| 23 | Something so trivial really did get in the way of a good time , yet none of the children , still bopping away , would have got their vests in such a twist . |
| 24 | The women had got into the way of going up on the deck every evening . |
| 25 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 26 | She had n't meant to ask anything of the sort , but realised then that her love for Naylor , her basic need to know more and everything about him , had got in the way of the fury she felt at his latest bossy manoeuvre . |
| 27 | Crunch exhibits exactly that , although a certain amount of brittleness does get in the way of the smooth , valve-based sound I tend to prefer . |
| 28 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 29 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I once had ideas of sailing around the world , doing a Sir Francis Chichester , you know , but work got in the way , and I had to lower my sights . ’ |