Example sentences of "[adj] to get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever their riders might desire , those English mounts broke , reared , panicked , cannoned into one another to get out of the way , and doing so caused utter confusion and collapse amongst the enemy . |
| 2 | Nomes had to scramble over one another to get out of the way when one of the floorboards in the manager 's office was pulled up . |
| 3 | The women were asked ‘ Do you find you have too much to get through during the day ? ’ |
| 4 | But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home . |
| 5 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 6 | By all accounts , William senior was not easy to get on with the turnover of partners in the early years of the practice was rapid , until he met his match in one Major Faulks in 1905 who not only outlived him , but stayed with the firm as a consultant until 1965 when he finally retired — at the age of 90 . |
| 7 | Before the company begins to move on its new goodies , it has Open Interface version 2.1 to get out of the door . |
| 8 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 9 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |
| 10 | ‘ He would have had to have been very fast to get out to the car park in that time , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 12 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 14 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 15 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 16 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 17 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 18 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 19 | And then I expect you 'll be glad to get back to the Vicarage . |
| 20 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
| 21 | The damp close air was heavy about them , it slowed their pace and they were glad to get back to the steading and watch Sullivan repairing the tractor . |
| 22 | I know I shall be glad to get back across the Atlas . |
| 23 | It 's good to get out of the atmosphere of a Home for a time . ’ |
| 24 | And it does me good to get out of the house . |
| 25 | It was Crane 's horse that had bolted but there was no doubt that if they were all to get out of the forest alive Crane would have to be mounted . |
| 26 | When referrals have come from other professionals it is important to get back to the parents ' view rather than working from the information in the referral letter . |
| 27 | So they 're actually charging people a little bit more to get in to the pantomime this year . |
| 28 | If there is any restriction on movement , however slight , of the spine , hips and lower limbs , the person may be unable to get out of the way of a dangerous moving object with sufficient speed to prevent mishap . |
| 29 | Add the position of his feet being wide apart and he is unable to get out of the way or play down the line . |
| 30 | If they do n't , one should dismiss the idea of cars unable to get out of the garage as sensational rubbish-mongering . |