Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] getting [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't understand Ward 's behaviour , so I just concentrated on getting out of the city as fast as I could . |
| 2 | When you keep getting hit on the nose you do n't feel like getting back into the ring . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Jane Eyre , you need not think you can succeed in getting out of the room like this . |
| 4 | This provided a confidence that came from getting on with the job . ’ |
| 5 | He 's looking to getting out of the hospit looking forward to a , a change |
| 6 | Exercise consisted of getting up in the morning , reaching for a cigarette and climbing into the car . |
| 7 | This he achieved by getting along to the Frog and Ferret at about eleven each morning , where he spent hours in conversation with George ‘ This is My Coronary ’ Parker . |
| 8 | She escaped by getting out of the vehicle while it was moving . |
| 9 | Robertson did not hesitate , and dived overboard and swam out to the dinghy which he succeeded in getting back to the fishing boat for the crew to get off . |
| 10 | But as David Bull says in his reply , even if we have misgivings about the way any campaign is handled , let's hope we are not deterred from getting on with the job in hand ! |
| 11 | The objective is to and something to share before getting down to the real business . |
| 12 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 13 | Smith said that some of the reporters had been drinking before getting down to the job of covering the fight ; Hearn is considering litigation . |
| 14 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 15 | Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time . |
| 16 | However , they had been plunged into a welter of activity in which they tried to respond to urgent and practical matters placed before them and it is , therefore , not surprising that a commonly held view was that ‘ the best form of training comes from getting on with the job ’ . |