Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having got back to bed for a few hours , at 0800 Captain Moore arrives at his office in the RMP Headquarters , which is housed in the 1936 Olympic Stadium Barracks , and by mid-morning is feeling a bit smug about the noticeable dent in the paperwork on his desk . |
| 2 | Everyone got up on stage for the final encore and launched themselves into a shambolic but passionate rendering of ‘ Wild Thing ’ which involved a bit of hot action in the shape of LOX from Kingmaker snogging an alarmed PATRICK from the Kitchens during the chorus . |
| 3 | It was time to forget about Ardakkeans and their mysterious phetam , and get back on course for Vadinamia and the problems that would surely be waiting for me there . |
| 4 | You do n't give a damn about whether we get back in time for the meeting . ’ |
| 5 | I always make sure I get back in time for tea . ’ |
| 6 | For example , an elder may say or write ‘ I was upset when my wife died , and could n't get on with doing for myself . |
| 7 | For a period , he worked in the Manchester factory from 3am until 5pm , going to bed at 7pm so he could get up in time for the next day 's duty . |
| 8 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 9 | Mrs Sparsit 's great-aunt , ‘ an immensely fat old woman , with an inordinate appetite for butcher 's meat , and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years ’ . |
| 10 | Although I had had only two stitches at the delivery I was tightly bandaged and not allowed to get out of bed for three days . |
| 11 | Addictions do come in handy sometimes : at least you have to get out of bed for them . |
| 12 | Today 's sticker is from the French Grand Prix he won to get back on course for the title with his sixth superb victory . |
| 13 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 14 | On a freezing , frosty night , no barrister would get out of bed for less than £150 . |
| 15 | Linda once said she would not get out of bed for less than Pounds 10,000 . |
| 16 | ‘ People in the business have had enough with the ‘ I wo n't get out of bed for less than £10,000 ’ attitude . |
| 17 | ‘ The other options are to fight in Europe or against another British fighter like Henry Wharton — but if Benn goes that way he would be offered money I would n't get out of bed for . ’ |
| 18 | It 's I mean would you get out of bed for five hundred quid a day ? |
| 19 | Would you get out of bed for five hundred pounds of course you would n't . |