Example sentences of "get a lift " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a student , Dinah was careful with money , and had even got a lift to the festival from her history teacher , to save money . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've got a lift . ’ |
| 3 | I mean , Bill 's got a lift all week he he |
| 4 | And I reckon Sunday I 'd have got a lift home . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt like I was escaping just to get in , ’ he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel . |
| 6 | Paul Theroux , the American traveller , once got a lift from China to Tibet . |
| 7 | Jason , 21 , has not been seen since he got a lift to a pub on December 8 from the home he shared with his girlfriend in Box , Wiltshire . |
| 8 | The youngsters got a lift back with chemical workers on a day trip . |
| 9 | Alan Hinkes was reportedly one who got a lift and carried down , while Mick Fowler watched from the South East Gully . |
| 10 | THE stage career of former TV-am weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson got a lift yesterday — from two strong-arm men . |
| 11 | We got a lift with three lorries transporting water pipes . |
| 12 | My parents and I generally got a lift home in a cart , leaving some of the other guests still in deep discussion and the small children asleep on their mothers ' laps . |
| 13 | I got a lift up frae Manchester . |
| 14 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
| 15 | er I got a lift erm school every time that happened |
| 16 | With stress on ‘ comes ’ , could it be that she gets a lift back ? |
| 17 | But why should it be that Peggy gets a lift from knowing that she has ‘ beaten ’ Boris ? |
| 18 | Jade gets a lift from Tommy |
| 19 | The precautions you take to make you feel safer often result in you restricting your life , following a self-imposed curfew , unable to go out unless you can be sure you can drive — or get a lift — back . |
| 20 | Ahead of an expected Christmas boom , shareholders get a lift in the interim dividend of 4.5% to 5.76p . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll have to walk to the station , unless we get a lift . ’ |
| 22 | you 'll definitely , you definitely get a lift back . |
| 23 | Cos tonight , I get a lift home . |
| 24 | On a Thursday I get a lift home , but Sunday I have to go up here and back . |
| 25 | There must be going , I try and go late and get a lift from someone to Hertford . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think I 'd have too much trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 27 | That 's why you 're getting a lift and for no other reason . |
| 28 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 29 | She had never done it in her life before and she was n't about to start now , but he did n't know that , and as the mention of getting a lift had finally wiped that superior smile from his face she felt more than inclined to pursue it . |
| 30 | I only said we 're getting a lift and Richard to write a letter to join the dance . |