Example sentences of "[conj] getting [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life . |
| 2 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 3 | For he just pushed his plate aside , wiped his mouth on the back of his hand , and getting up from the table once again went out of the house without saying a word . |
| 4 | but he , he 's at that age now where I could have another kid and look after it quite easily if I had one , but I do n't wan na go through , not the pregnancy , but I do n't want to go through all the babies and getting up in the night and , one that 'll come out six months old |
| 5 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 6 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ There they are , innocent , uncomplicated and trusting , accepting the world for what it is and getting on with the business of enjoying it . |
| 8 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 9 | Here it was : and starting here he was both fucking and getting back into the tree . |
| 10 | ‘ We shall be rolling up our sleeves and getting out into the communities . |
| 11 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 12 | The most dangerous moment of a policeman 's life is the time between getting his coat on and getting out of the station . |
| 13 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 14 | But getting back to The Case is Altered : I supposed that if the people got browned off , as we call it , they 'd have a settin' in . |
| 15 | The manager has to be honest , competent and use common sense , while getting on with the artist . |
| 16 | So we need to think less of the state as getting out of the control of the legislature , and more of the state as getting out of the control of the dominant economic class . |
| 17 | So we need to think less of the state as getting out of the control of the legislature , and more of the state as getting out of the control of the dominant economic class . |