Example sentences of "get [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a feeling that I never had until that nice little man with a funny hat and a big gun got out of a strange aeroplane and asked me : " Do you speak English ? " |
| 2 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 3 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 4 | They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car . |
| 5 | He fell three short of his century this time , and once again no one else got out of the twenties , but 221 still proved too much for England . |
| 6 | Could you then have got out of the black hole with the remaining extra stage ? ’ |
| 7 | When the explosions eased off a bit , I bade farewell to Pat and got out of the big house as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | ‘ I must have got out of the wrong side of the bed , ’ Beck said . |
| 9 | As she passed Veronica 's house , she noticed that one of the men had got out of the green Maestro and was making his way round the back of the building . |
| 10 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 11 | Drawing back the curtains , he saw a pair of men in blue overalls get out of a black police car , open the gates to the yard and give a mock salute as the driver and his passenger drove in . |
| 12 | I have never seen anyone create a gap in the crowd for one of the nice people , who are stagediving either to have fun or get out of a painful suffocating position in front . |
| 13 | Gradually I get out of the unscientific habit of trying to read other people 's faces , and come to see the bodies from which personality has faded as the automata which for scientific explanation they already are . |
| 14 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 15 | Instead of a young person being sentenced to a period in custody , which means that it is all too likely that he or she will continue in a life of crime , become a professional criminal and never get out of the criminal world , the alternative makes both moral and economic sense . |
| 16 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 17 | get out of the cold and have a hot drink . |
| 18 | ‘ Get out of the fucking way . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not fucking lover-boy , dear , now get out of the fucking bath and do as you 're told and you wo n't get hurt . ’ |
| 20 | So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter . |
| 21 | But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation . |
| 22 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 23 | The paving stones were still there , neatly piled against the hedge but the two men were not there , only three police officers getting out of a black car . |
| 24 | However the players are getting out of the losing habit . |
| 25 | ‘ A chap got out of a big , black car and did it , ’ he panted . |
| 26 | ( With Lennie , talking to the owner of the ranch , George got out of a tight spot concerning his relationship to Lennie and why Lennie was so silent , this characteristic was evident ) . |
| 27 | I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt . |
| 28 | On one occasion , the Tsar got out of the Imperial train for a stroll at Binul Station and the train left without him . |
| 29 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're not trying to get out of a short-term financial embarrassment , which gives us flexibility . |