Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure . |
| 2 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 3 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 4 | ‘ When the woman driver got out of the car she went to intervene between the two men . |
| 5 | The driver got out of the car . |
| 6 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 9 | A familiar figure got out of the bus and walked straight to the cab rank . |
| 10 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 11 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 12 | The president got up from the chair and came round the table , his hand outstretched in the Western style . |
| 13 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 14 | Chant got out of the car and opened Estabrook 's door . |
| 15 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whether the drafting film is clear or translucent : Polyester drafting film may reduce the UV light getting through to the etch-resist , so longer exposure may be necessary . |
| 18 | So what , how did the racing industry get on during the war . |
| 19 | And as pressure mounted for military intervention , NATO agreed to draw up plans to use force to make sure humanitarian aid gets through to the stricken region . |
| 20 | Most of that chlorine gets up into the atmosphere because of our activities , particularly our use of CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) , and other chlorine-based gases . |
| 21 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 22 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 23 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 24 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 25 | Press any key to get back to the DOS Shell . |
| 26 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 27 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 28 | Well regarded for its colour-illustrated articles by noted authors , many from the museum field , the journal had a devoted following of around 10,000 subscribers , but needed a cash infusion to get out of the red . |
| 29 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 30 | John Matthias brought the filly with a customary late surge to get up on the line to beat Zadracarta , the Canadian challenger , a head . |