Example sentences of "get out 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 Could you then have got out of the black hole with the remaining extra stage ? ’
3 When the explosions eased off a bit , I bade farewell to Pat and got out of the big house as quickly as possible .
4 ‘ I must have got out of the wrong side of the bed , ’ Beck said .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 get out of the cold and have a hot drink .
11 Get out of the fucking way .
12 ‘ 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 . ’
13 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 .
14 However the players are getting out of the losing habit .
15 I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt .
16 On one occasion , the Tsar got out of the Imperial train for a stroll at Binul Station and the train left without him .
17 But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific .
18 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 .
19 How are we to get out of the present mess ?
20 It provides an opportunity to get out of the private rented sector .
21 ‘ 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 .
22 ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket .
23 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 .
24 Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room .
25 but you do n't expect to get out of the ruddy
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Something brown was fighting to get out of the bright green of the marsh .
29 At daybreak , though , they passed out into the ocean proper , still heating to the north-west to get out of the miserable cold .
30 To get out of the military training then given at boarding schools needed iron determination and met pressure from schoolmasters and unpopularity among boys .
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