Example sentences of "we get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 An' then we 'ave a look at Bill 's book to check out what it was we got up to .
2 God , the things we got up to . ’
3 When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited .
4 That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know .
5 We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything .
6 After stops for punctures we got up to the snow .
7 Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days .
8 but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet .
9 We got up at 5.00am and after a delicious breakfast we got underway to meet our van .
10 We got up at 6 a.m. to start making bacon and tomato butties for the Co-op Bakery and homeward-bound shift workers .
11 The routine at Aubagne was the same every day ; we got up at 4.30 am , washed , shaved and paraded outside before a breakfast of coffee and bread in the main cookhouse ; then we cleaned the barrack rooms for an hour and paraded again at 7.30 am for the allocation of the day 's duties .
12 We got up at 5.30 am and it was grim .
13 We got up at eight and I
14 We were like ringing the bell and both of us were desperate for a crap , absolutely desperate , and desperate for a cup of tea cos we got up at ei er half seven .
15 And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there .
16 We got up from the seat and strolled along the terrace .
17 The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash .
18 I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ .
19 but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it .
20 Then we got round to Edwin 's death and Francis 's murder .
21 I done it , I did it all neat and tidy the whole way round till we got round to the door and I says you can do it , no way am I cutting round there big chunk
22 We did miss them in the final , but the other girls responded magnificently , so we got through by 12–11 in the end . ’
23 We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army .
24 Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded .
25 We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too .
26 Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off .
27 Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet .
28 Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists .
29 right then we got on to talking about him going into the gents and what he does , he do n't shut the door and such
30 and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree
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