Example sentences of "have got out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sixty million pounds this Council has got out of Europe .
2 A source at the US Embassy in London dismissed the whole affair as one that has got out of proportion and a diversion from a packed agenda .
3 He is a young friend of Stepan Verkhovensky , and when the notebooks record that Granovsky ( Stepan 's prototype ) has got out of hand they are also heralding the novelist 's escape into a fictional mode of enormous suppleness .
4 Magistrates , victims of crime , the police and even offenders agree cautioning has got out of hand .
5 ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist .
6 I should never have got out of bed . ’
7 Well he might just have got out of bed , that may not help .
8 All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books .
9 This was an idea that could easily have got out of hand and extensive research was conducted before and after the ads were produced to make sure the communication was exactly as intended .
10 I mean it could have been different it could have got out of control and then everybody would have turned and pointed a finger and that would have been awful .
11 For years whenever I 've got out of bed in the middle of the night — about whatever pursuit you get out of bed in the night for — my right ankle has made cracking noises , like kindling being snapped .
12 By May 1341 all he had got out of parliament was a resolution to collect the rest of the ninth and an offer of an extra 10,000 sacks of wool ; no new money was granted .
13 By this time the youngest member of the family , an eight-year-old boy , had got out of bed and was clinging to the bannisters at the bottom of the stairs .
14 Yesterday morning Harriet had got out of bed and made herself ready to go hunting behind those upstairs windows .
15 But it had got out of hand before , and Clive had coped with it .
16 Stories were told about how they had actually done considerable damage to some visiting fans when situations had got out of hand .
17 The trouble was , as the Windscale fire had shown , once the nuclear reaction had got out of control , then those problems could become extremely serious indeed .
18 A second police spokesman said the drama was simply a domestic incident which had got out of control .
19 The only bit of information Jenny had got out of Morgan was that he ‘ knew ’ the builder was Jacko Roberts .
20 ‘ I will speak to him , ’ he said to her when they had got out of earshot , ‘ and see if I can not resolve this matter . ’
21 This not merely scattered them but wreaked havoc on the transports which had got out of harbour ; 12 were sunk of which seven went down with all on board .
22 The plaintiff can give a little assistance to those who dress her and when she 's got out of bed she can stand with the assistance of one other person .
23 It 's been held in the town each year for decades , but this time local people say it 's got out of hand and is ruining the area .
24 It 's been held in the town each year for decades , but this time local people say it 's got out of hand and is ruining the area .
25 It 's got out of hand .
26 ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’
27 The quest for social pain becomes a preoccupation with my own pain — after all , feminists usually start from their point of identification with other women , and I have my own troubles too , like I 'm also " intentionally homeless ' , a person who 's got out in order to get up .
28 It is , of course , not the place , duty or even wish of the investigators to frustrate the administration of justice in respect of proper awards for damages but some of the awards , particularly in the USA , have got out of proportion , particularly when it comes to product liability cases brought by the representatives of dependants of those killed in an accident .
29 Things have got out of hand in the past but this time it 's just a fashion show , ’ said Mrs Deborah Keily of the NSPCC , which hoped to raise £20,000 from the show .
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