Example sentences of "[noun pl] got [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools got on with the business of education . |
| 2 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 3 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 4 | Nails got up to the railway sidings early . |
| 5 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 6 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 7 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 8 | According to the Tass news agency , 37 trains got through over the weekend , partly as a result of ‘ serious measures ’ by the authorities . |
| 9 | In the middle of the night one of Kiku 's cats got in among the dogs and , when Burun got up to see what was causing the commotion , he found Suragai trying to save the animal . |
| 10 | Shortly after midday the train reached Llangynog , where the passengers got out onto the new station platform . |
| 11 | Visitors were instructed to ask what time working class wives got up in the morning and to elicit a history of the way in which they organised their day 's work . |
| 12 | The factory which was in Leith had what would now he called a creche where the children could it and play and he looked after whilst the mothers got on with the ground sheets … and the war . |
| 13 | The European champions got off to the best possible start when the full-back Graeme Rutjes headed them into the lead after 12 minutes . |
| 14 | A woman and three children got up from the table as I entered the room . |
| 15 | When the two children got back to the tunnel with the men from the farm , they found Bobbie and Jim asleep . |
| 16 | Then the men got round to the subject of politics . |
| 17 | The others got out of the rope , and Slingsby , climbing up as far as possible , stood on a little step just below , with his hands on the platform . |
| 18 | Two uniformed policemen got out of the Panda car and joined their boss . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |