Example sentences of "[adj] get [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home . |
| 2 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 3 | By all accounts , William senior was not easy to get on with the turnover of partners in the early years of the practice was rapid , until he met his match in one Major Faulks in 1905 who not only outlived him , but stayed with the firm as a consultant until 1965 when he finally retired — at the age of 90 . |
| 4 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 5 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |
| 6 | ‘ He would have had to have been very fast to get out to the car park in that time , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , it may make sense to have an integrated commuter rail service and inner-city subway , and to subsidize it to prevent people driving through congested streets ; but only a local government embracing both the suburbs and the inner city is likely to get close to the efficient policy . |
| 9 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 10 | Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 12 | She was glad to get away from the shop for a short while and she felt confident about leaving the baby in Fred 's charge . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm glad to get away from the camp , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He was glad to get away from the brooding perplexity of the honest official . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ The teacher is one of the very people who were glad to get away from the CTC and find employment in a properly-run county school . |
| 16 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 17 | He backed out of Nisodemus 's presence and was glad to get out into the bitingly cold air . |
| 18 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 19 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 20 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 21 | And then I expect you 'll be glad to get back to the Vicarage . |
| 22 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 23 | The damp close air was heavy about them , it slowed their pace and they were glad to get back to the steading and watch Sullivan repairing the tractor . |
| 24 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
| 25 | I know I shall be glad to get back across the Atlas . |
| 26 | It said , if Labour get in to the government today , will the last person who leaves Britain please put the light out . |
| 27 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 28 | Sometimes it is good to get away from the particular disciplines of our own medium and techniques and try something else . |
| 29 | It 's good to get out of the atmosphere of a Home for a time . ’ |
| 30 | And it does me good to get out of the house . |