Example sentences of "get [adv] from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained .
2 You never quite got away from guilt ; the priests were right .
3 The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested .
4 Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began .
5 Let me put this in a less than shocking way , gotten away from thinking of everything in so-called ethical terms , because it confuses me .
6 Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third .
7 And you used to when you got home from school follow the plough and furring the the ware into the into the furrow .
8 I got home from hunting one January night , with snow on the ground and found him down and out in his stable .
9 Otherwise she might have some little upset , jump into a taxi , and you would find her here when you got home from work .
10 With me working , by the time you got home from work , it 'd be 5 o'clock .
11 With me workin' , by the time you got home from work at 5 o'clock , it might take you till 9 o'clock at night to score some nights .
12 He 'd probably be on his way across the Channel now and waiting outside her flat just as she got home from work .
13 My mum got home from work about 10.30 p.m. and asked if I was all right , but I told her that I thought it was a false alarm .
14 Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food .
15 It started when I got home from hospital after having my baby .
16 He 'd only just got right from flu .
17 Locke does not mean , though , that ideas are necessarily received in their simplicity : complexes can be got directly from experience , and do not always actually have to be built up from experienced simples .
18 I did it for a bet — with one of my uncles , his side being that I would n't stick to anything — and because it seemed as good a way as any of getting away from home , but I was not uninterested and I have not forgotten my subject . ’
19 ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor .
20 My old dream , he wrote : get away from agony of background-foreground and from the over-assertiveness usually involved in destruction of that relationship .
21 When Jo gets home from school she flies upstairs , gets a flannel and wipes my head .
22 Some nights when his mum Beverley gets home from work , he 'll look up at her and say : ‘ Mummy , I 'm such a wobbly boy . ’
23 I reckon she must be , by the time they get home from work she do n't wan na do a lot .
24 but with us in work all the time , time we get home from work the chiropodist 's gone
25 Get home from school early as there is extra work to do . ’
26 Fourteen-year-old Jes-sie Mason from North London said : ‘ I put on Radio One in my room when I get home from school to hear Steve Wright 's show .
27 Josh does n't have much of an appetite at present , but I expect the boys will be hungry when they get home from school . ’
28 But that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Nev will be coming at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm it 's just you know it 's just happened .
29 Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane .
30 Them I got there from Solo
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