Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 2 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 3 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 4 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 5 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 6 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 7 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 8 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 9 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 10 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He was a young man , and I am sure that his message got through to a great many people . |
| 13 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 14 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 15 | The latest version got off to a controversial start when it was decided to cast stunning French actress Juliette Binoche in this most English of dramas . |
| 16 | THE new trading account got off to a lousy start with further bloodshed on the back of last week 's Autumn statement . |
| 17 | East Grinstead got off to a great start with an 11th minute goal , but in spite of their pressure — they won ten penalty corners to Holywood 's none — they seldom troubled goalkeeper Kyle Thompson . |
| 18 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland got off to a great start in the Woolworths Young Athletes League , winning their Northern Premier match at the Don Valley Stadium , Sheffield . |
| 19 | In front of over 22,000 fans Town got off to a great start , taking the lead after 34 minutes , Duncan Sheerer the scorer . |
| 20 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 21 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |
| 22 | Through William Agnew 's painting , and the notice it received , the Building Fund ( Agnew 's brainchild ) got off to a splendid start , and Agnew 's energy and his business contacts throughout Glasgow soon saw the Fund grow quickly . |
| 23 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
| 24 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
| 25 | In short , the event got off to a cracking start . |
| 26 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 27 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 28 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 29 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 30 | Wednesday , 28th August , 1839 , the first day of the Tournament , got off to a good start with a bright sun shining from a clear blue sky and the temperature high . |