Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goreng had given us two guards — whether to protect us or to stop us getting up to mischief I 'm not sure : maybe both . |
| 2 | Mundell , 22 , and Lieutenant Andrew Hadley , 24 , then stormed into Lt Richard Brearey 's room and asked him to get up and watch the results . |
| 3 | It is the skilled job of the social workers to help the foster parents cope by understanding their anxiety , explaining the child 's difficulties and helping them to get along together . |
| 4 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 5 | She thought of staying to nurse it in bed , but then remembered her promise to Felicity Suvarov and made herself get up . |
| 6 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 7 | Jesus took the little girl by the hand and told her to get up . |
| 8 | M ! father took the bag from her and told her to get back upstairs to my mother . |
| 9 | They called back Washbrook , now 41 , and told him to get up to Headingley with his bat and pads . |
| 10 | ‘ He lay there snoring so I thought he was messing about and told him to get up . |
| 11 | Presumbly Kev had been on the hotline to Wilko at half time and told him to get back to 4–4-2 asap ! |
| 12 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 13 | ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out . |
| 14 | Oh we were look through all the magazines and they got really stressed out and told us to get out . |
| 15 | It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top . |
| 16 | Devlin kept his eyes closed and let him get on with it . |
| 17 | most likely to make people believe that they can achieve a certain thing and let them get up and do it and erm so that the Party 's role is in the initial stage fostering as much mobilization |
| 18 | Journalists just pop them a question and let them get on with it . |
| 19 | Now shut up and let them get on with their game . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 21 | His philosophy of management may be summed up as ‘ Pick a good team and let them get on with it ’ , and his attitude to marketing as ‘ Good wine needs no bush ’ . |
| 22 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 23 | Should the Slater Foundation accept , then , that it has performed a function in goading the LTA forward and retire from the arena and let them get on with it ? |
| 24 | The guitar had no place here and the guitarist sat back with a grin , his back to the open case , and let them get on with it . |
| 25 | We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Give her the päté anyway and let her get on with it . |
| 27 | Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it . |
| 28 | Says Ken : ‘ I just read the Echo while she 's doing it and let her get on with it . |
| 29 | After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel . |
| 30 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |