Example sentences of "get [vb pp] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never got stopped on a bike . |
| 2 | ‘ The bag may well have saved your life , first by doubling as a lifebelt , then by getting caught on a needle of rock in the inlet . |
| 3 | To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important . |
| 4 | If we use up almost all our ration of luck in our theory of how life gets started on a planet in the first place , then we are allowed to postulate very little more luck in subsequent parts of our theory , in , say , the cumulative evolution of brains and intelligence . |
| 5 | Getting started on a rehabilitation regime sometimes requires help with detoxification , a process to remove excess chemicals from the body . |
| 6 | Once people get hooked on a show you have them . ’ |
| 7 | I mean it 's the old story , is n't it , one person who gets killed on a Bank Holiday car crash is not news but four getting killed together is a disaster , is newsworthy , I mean that 's the way it works . |
| 8 | So you get paid till half past twelve Christmas Eve look , so it 's thirteen seventy five till twelve that we normally get paid on a Friday . |
| 9 | William says both his parents were riding enthusiasts and he got put on a horse at the age of three … his mother used to ride for Britian in the sixties and she 's encouraged him to compete … it used to terrify him at first and he never dreamt he 'd be good enough to compete … |
| 10 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 11 | Still , she could get started on a draft . |