Example sentences of "get [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had doubled back and got out of the single-leaf door of the car . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Could you then have got out of the black hole with the remaining extra stage ? ’ |
| 4 | When the explosions eased off a bit , I bade farewell to Pat and got out of the big house as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ I must have got out of the wrong side of the bed , ’ Beck said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 12 | get out of the cold and have a hot drink . |
| 13 | ‘ Get out of the fucking way . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However the players are getting out of the losing habit . |
| 17 | I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt . |
| 18 | On one occasion , the Tsar got out of the Imperial train for a stroll at Binul Station and the train left without him . |
| 19 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 20 | The teacher expressed concern that , although he could write quite well in English , he only did so when writing collaboratively with his friend ( who was absent ) ; she thought that collaboration might be becoming an avoidance strategy , to get out of the frustrating task of attempting to write in English . |
| 21 | How are we to get out of the present mess ? |
| 22 | It provides an opportunity to get out of the private rented sector . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's such a relief to get out of the starched uniform and the black stockings , ’ she said loudly so that the crowd around us could hear . |
| 24 | ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket . |
| 25 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 26 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 27 | but you do n't expect to get out of the ruddy |
| 28 | During take-offs and landings , some Flying Control personnel would occupy a caravan placed near the start of the runway being used , and they would fire green or red flares to let the aircraft know if they were cleared to land or take-off , and on this occasion one of the men was very quick off the mark , saw the crash and was immediately on the spot , helping the crew to get out of the burning aircraft . |
| 29 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 30 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |