Example sentences of "[prep] get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Connolly also headed straight at the goalkeeper in the 88th minute — that was probably the time McLean slipped off his sandbag — an even better opportunity for United to secure a share of the spoils was squandered by substitute Christian Dailly , who failed to even get his shot on target after getting in behind the Hearts defence . |
| 2 | ‘ After getting out of the cab , I looked round and saw what looked like a car upside down on fire . |
| 3 | After getting out of the car she bent over and pushed open the gate , then closed it behind her , walked up the short path and rang the doorbell . |
| 4 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 5 | After getting back into the accurate turn as before , apply a very small amount of opposite rudder to create a slightly slipping turn and try the stall again . |
| 6 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 7 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 8 | You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat . |
| 9 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 10 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 11 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
| 12 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 13 | For them , it is more a question of getting on with the job . |
| 14 | Instead of getting on with the business of making toilet water , he spent his time on the racecourse and worse . |
| 15 | of getting on with the five years plans they 've put too much effort into producing war machines ! |
| 16 | The final way of getting on to the Council in a given year was by being an ypilachó0n or stand-in , and that may explain some instances of ‘ carpet-baggers ’ , i.e. political adventurers who offered themselves as Councillors for demes other than their home deme . |
| 17 | yeah it 's good that they had a fairer chance of getting on to the tables |
| 18 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 19 | Advisers constantly complain of lost files at the Department of Social Security , staff indifference and the difficulty of getting through on the telephone . |
| 20 | The most common difficulty found with hardware was that of coping with noisy lines and of getting through to the services . |
| 21 | You will then have a better chance of getting through to the interview stage ; |
| 22 | In their generosity , or relief of getting out of the kitchen , they ply me with bag loads of organic vegetables . |
| 23 | If the fish did attack and he missed with his spear , Trent knew that his chances of getting out of the water in one piece were nil . |
| 24 | Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time . |
| 25 | If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small . |
| 26 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 27 | Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest . |
| 28 | He saw her look from him to the key , judging the distance , assessing the possibility of getting out of the room alive , and smiled inwardly . |
| 29 | Hopefully , it 'll give some severely disabled people a means of getting out of the bath without having to rely on another person . ’ |
| 30 | Another way of getting out of the recession is by increasing public expenditure . |