Example sentences of "[adj] to get [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He would have had to have been very fast to get out to the car park in that time , ’ he said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 12 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And then I expect you 'll be glad to get back to the Vicarage . |
| 16 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I know I shall be glad to get back across the Atlas . |
| 19 | It 's good to get out of the atmosphere of a Home for a time . ’ |
| 20 | And it does me good to get out of the house . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Add the position of his feet being wide apart and he is unable to get out of the way or play down the line . |
| 24 | If they do n't , one should dismiss the idea of cars unable to get out of the garage as sensational rubbish-mongering . |
| 25 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 26 | Several of the larger equipment companies have a mail order service , which is useful if you are unable to get out to the shops . |
| 27 | When a dolphin becomes trapped in a net , it drowns because it is unable to get back to the surface to refill its lungs when the supply of air runs out . |
| 28 | After the lecture there were tea and refreshments and it was not until fairly late that I rang Emily just to say Hello , and how sorry I was to be too busy to get over to the house to see her this trip . |
| 29 | But Ferguson insists it is not too late for United to get back in the hunt . |
| 30 | But a combination of the £1.3 billion cash call and the general lack of confidence in the pharmaceutical sector means that Zeneca is unlikely to get off to the sort of flying start that some had hoped for . |