Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 3 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 4 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 5 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 6 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 7 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 8 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 9 | The pilots were drunk and half-naked ; they got no help from the French girls , who simply screamed and tried to get out of the window . |
| 10 | At least my father tried to get out of the trap , but I doubt if Jones has ever struggled , even with his conscience . |
| 11 | After driving to Rolls Wood Group [ Repair & Overhauls ] Ltd , they tried to get out of the car . |
| 12 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 13 | I kissed her and held her and tried to get out of the house without saying goodbye to anyone . |
| 14 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 15 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 16 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 17 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |
| 18 | Nkrumah decided to get out on the road . |
| 19 | It was then that Nigger decided to get in on the act , and launched himself the length of the hallway . |
| 20 | He decided to get back between the covers , or under the covers . |
| 21 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 22 | Seeing how low she was , Anthony decided that she needed to get out of the house and gave her reluctant permission to spend half of each day in court . |
| 23 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 24 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 25 | It was what actors call a total ‘ corpse ’ , and , although they managed to get through to the end of the play , any tension they might have built up was dissipated . |
| 26 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 27 | Eventually he managed to get away to the continent , and when he was restored to the throne nine years later , the story of the King 's narrow escape seized the public imagination . |
| 28 | Once , landing from the submarine HMS Tigris , his fellow canoeist — a Free French soldier — lost his boat in rough water , but they managed to get back to the submarine . |
| 29 | Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush . |
| 30 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |