Example sentences of "get [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 2 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 3 | The first time I ever got bashed around the earhole was when I put my dirty fingers on that cigarette case . |
| 4 | And I reckoned that if a star got stopped at the edge , I 'd be safe , what with my rocket and all . ’ |
| 5 | And I even , you know , got stopped in the station itself before I started . |
| 6 | And I actually got stopped in the checks . |
| 7 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 8 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 9 | Now you can quit the heat of the kitchen and swan around on those yachts of yours you got stashed around the world . ’ |
| 10 | Thanks to a neat design , no muck got spilled into the tank when removing the filter , and it was pretty full . |
| 11 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 12 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |
| 13 | Yeah , I know , it was killed in the one where it got trapped in the . |
| 14 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 15 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 16 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 17 | Last year we got caught on the break too many times … this year we have the pace/organisation to deal with that … and Lukic is nt bad at 1 on 1 's … |
| 18 | Ants frequently got caught in the pine resins that were destined to become amber , and numerous fossil species have been recognized . |
| 19 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 20 | It 's running so high , and so fast , even a good swimmer might not be able to get out if he once got caught in the current . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You just got caught in the crossfire . |
| 22 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 23 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 24 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 25 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 26 | He was saying he was ‘ hard-faced ’ and cited an incident where his girlfriend got attacked in the ground and the man ‘ did n't want to know ’ . |
| 27 | I got picked for the washing up detail and with six others swept the kitchen and dining room , drank the dregs from the glasses and bottles and had a conversation with one of the cooks about Beirut . |
| 28 | A few things got torn along the way . |
| 29 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 30 | Before she should have a chance to wake and discover the edenwort , Henry got to work on the supper . |