Example sentences of "get [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bean got down from the cab , grinning happily . |
| 2 | He got down from the cab . |
| 3 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 4 | I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes . |
| 5 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 6 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |
| 7 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 8 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 9 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
| 10 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 11 | The young officer got down from the train and went into the station building . |
| 12 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone got in from the sea-wall . |
| 14 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 15 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 16 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 17 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 18 | This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street . |
| 19 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 20 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 21 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
| 22 | Aldhelm got up from the turf on which a new and unsteady lamb was also trying to get to its feet , nuzzled by the quivering ewe . |
| 23 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 24 | Kitty slouched off again while Charlie got up from the kitchen table carrying the remainder of the pie in his fingers . |
| 25 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 26 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 27 | Wycliffe got up from the desk and crossed the landing to Riddle 's bedroom . |
| 28 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 29 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 30 | She got up from the floor and sat on Anna 's knee . |