Example sentences of "get [vb pp] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year we got caught on the break too many times … this year we have the pace/organisation to deal with that … and Lukic is nt bad at 1 on 1 's … |
| 2 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 3 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 4 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't give notice , ’ Leith butted in , having got started on the honesty trail . |
| 6 | That 's all you 've got recorded on the tape is explaining it to everybody what it bloody is . |
| 7 | Well , the first one we got kicked on the head because take the pension . |
| 8 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 9 | But at the moment , you feel as if they 're getting patted on the head and it 's giving them a push down the wrong way . |
| 10 | Alcohol deprives boozers of their livers and their memories , and ends the lives of all too many innocents who get smashed on the roads by the inebriated . |
| 11 | OFF-LICENCES all over Ulster will be handing out free measures to customers next month — to help stop them getting sozzled on the sofa ! |
| 12 | She need n't have worried ; from what I had seen , getting a little bit of cream on your nose was practically compulsory , like getting nicked on the cheek in a ritualised duel before being allowed to enter a Prussian drinking sodality . |
| 13 | They get rewarded on the basis of the Europa scale and classification and the fat finish of the animal whether beef or sheep . |
| 14 | Ruth occupied herself with getting settled on the office stool , aware that she could n't speak until she 'd swallowed the ridiculous tightness in her throat . |
| 15 | Then there was the matter of me getting hit on the head . |
| 16 | When you keep getting hit on the nose you do n't feel like getting back into the ring . ’ |
| 17 | Unless you fall into a frozen lake or get left on the mountainside overnight , this will not happen to you . |
| 18 | They often get left on the shelf , and the only way they can be sold is if the price is reduced . |
| 19 | The second is an untidy surgical exposure , the more convincing and moving for its incompetence , of the first 's withheld human inwardness , while the first is a theological drama in which the must of ‘ a man absolutely must go somewhere ’ gets tortured on the rack of faith . |
| 20 | At first , it is internal , just checking to see that the code to make two and two add up to four gets the right answer , but as more flesh gets put on the bones of the program , and it begins to look more like a real product , the first of the heavy testing stages starts . |
| 21 | if you get knocked on the arse in n it ? |
| 22 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 23 | It just gets left on the doorstep with the milk , does n't it . |
| 24 | Getting started on the groove is tricky , then good but spaced holds lead up and left to more exposed rock . |
| 25 | Either I get hooked on the story or message to the exclusion of the drawings , or am arrested by the designs and can not be bothered with the balloons . |
| 26 | I think he 's getting hooked on the taste of vaseline , that dog . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing Mr Bush said was specifically aimed at the profession — no-one gets elected on the strength of helping accountants — but there is hope . ’ |
| 28 | it 's a special day to you , you know getting married on the top of Arthur 's Seat or whatever , but what about for the majority of people who who have a church wedding and the symbolism there that just goes unstated . |
| 29 | NEWLYWEDS Andrew and Tina-Marie Hine quickly learned the ups and downs of married life yesterday — by getting married on the top of the Grand National ROLLERCOASTER at Blackpool Pleasure Beach |
| 30 | … the working class think nothing of getting married on the dole . |