Example sentences of "get [adv] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 2 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 3 | She got up on an elbow . |
| 4 | Chris Tavaré at first slip gets in on a piece of history . |
| 5 | I know they 're going on to security entrance is n't it , where the er they 're going to have their own key or own method of getting in on an intercom . |
| 6 | And Carolina , yeah , if you get up on a roll , Carolina , jump and across , Carolina come on me , oh watch how she groove , Carolina , come on me , oh watch out you get groove . |
| 7 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 8 | And the only way you 're going to fail is if you get out on a limb . |
| 9 | To get in on a scholarship means passing little short of brilliantly . |
| 10 | The narrow High Street is easily blocked as traffic builds up behind the heavy goods vehicles trying to get through on a route avoiding the increased toll on the Severn Bridge . |
| 11 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 12 | One might have hoped Frodo would get up on a block and speak to everybody , impose his will . |
| 13 | Strategy was necessary to get out on a date alone . |
| 14 | Even so it was just great to get back on a road race bike again in February . |
| 15 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |