Example sentences of "[pers pn] get [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 2 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 3 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 4 | I get up at a rather late hour . |
| 5 | ‘ I get up at a quarter-to-five most mornings . |
| 6 | If I get up out a chair it 's murder . |
| 7 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
| 8 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 9 | I get in from a dull lunch and find your urgent communication on my desk . |
| 10 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like you get on to a list , ’ he suggests with a smile . |
| 12 | And Carolina , yeah , if you get up on a roll , Carolina , jump and across , Carolina come on me , oh watch how she groove , Carolina , come on me , oh watch out you get groove . |
| 13 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |
| 14 | Increasing the amount of interview you get through in a day ? |
| 15 | And the only way you 're going to fail is if you get out on a limb . |
| 16 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 17 | Tarmac you get out of a |
| 18 | unless you get out in a huff . |
| 19 | This is really , really mega-important , because if you get off to a disorganised start then you 'll find it hard to recover . |
| 20 | These are n't things you get off in a hurry , so I try and remain calm , although suddenly I 'm pretty certain I 've got one on my chest . |
| 21 | We get on like a house on fire — now we no longer live together . |
| 22 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 23 | No , what they mean is they if it 's put in on a Thursday so it 's there so when they , whatever they get in on a Friday they can pay out then but if it 's paid in on a Friday then |
| 24 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |