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Example sentences of "[subord] he got [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals .
2	GAZZA knows that when in Rome , do as the Romans — so he got into the spirit with some impressive hand waving and high passion during a training match .
3	He grabbed his passport but did n't open it until he got to the Hungarian border .
4	Wallace looked great until he got near the goal .
5	and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having
6	Cos he hoped , if he got into the Met and then he transfer up here .
7	One pushed her into the passenger seat while he got into the driver 's seat and the other jumped into the back .
8	But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ?
9	That 's eight years this June , the twenty second , when we give up butchering and er then we got , well we got motorized , you see we , father bought a van after he got up the street near the church .
10	They always saw his jokes before he got to the punch line .
11	Before he got to the real problem .
12	But before he got to the newsagent 's he met , coming out of Fawley Road with a small boy and smaller girl , his first cousin once removed , Tina Darne .
13	It seemed forever before he got to the centre of the stage .
14	‘ Pint of Bass , please , ’ I ordered , so that it was half-pulled before he got to the bar .
15	He stopped the chauffeur wearily before he got to the Book .
16	In newsomes situation I would have maybe challenged him before he got to the box and maybe given a foul away in the process .
17	Sharpe put two efforts wide before he got on the score sheet for the first time this season , courtesy of Cantona , after 77 minutes .
18	Before he got on the Kawasaki he spoke into it and then tilted his helmet to hear the response .
19	Eastwood missed two kickable penalties before he got off the mark with a 20th minute kick after Wigan were caught offside .
20	He wished she 'd told him she was going to see her friend before he got into the car .
21	‘ What you 're saying , ’ Spruce said , ‘ is that he was dead before he got into the pit . ’
22	There was a note that came into Blackadder 's voice when he got onto the subject of Beatrice , a jarring , snarling note , that put Roland in mind of hounds baying .
23	‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded .
24	He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it .
25	He did not stop when he got to the water , but leaped in feet first and landed with a tremendous SPEELOSH !
26	When he got to the line about its not being long , love , till our wedding day , Jarvis felt the old undefined longing and the tears pricking his eyelids , though the last thing he wanted was a wedding day or a wife or any permanent relationship , come to that .
27	" When he got to the palace , El-ahrairah demanded to see the captain of the guard .
28	When he got to the hotel , she had left another message .
29	When he got to the horse 's stall he found it was locked .
30	Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery .