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

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1 Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ?
2 And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet .
3 So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it .
4 So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other .
5 I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his .
6 She worked mainly with men , and got on with most of them , but she did not enjoy it when Alec Ardis , the son of the firm 's owner , one day came into her office and , without any encouragement from her and despite his married status , made an assault on her and refused to take ‘ no ’ for an answer .
7 I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside .
8 I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it .
9 For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another .
10 Teachers will wonder how they got on without detailed ‘ programmes of study ’ , ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ , etc , and ‘ curriculum managers ’ , like Danish heads , will perhaps be able to take a more relaxed line on managing the curriculum : ‘ Some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ .
11 Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations .
12 And it got on from that you see .
13 Rincewind got down on one knee , the better to arrange the picture , and pressed the enchanted lever .
14 Then the crew got down to serious drinking .
15 It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate .
16 Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought .
17 Mr Tillingham got down to churchy business , the funeral would take place at three in the afternoon …
18 I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck
19 On tour in 1988 , Gedge often shouted into the microphone ‘ Status Quo — 25 years in the business , ’ as he and Solowka got down to some mindless guitar boogie .
20 He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on .
21 ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ?
22 I got down to ten stone .
23 But I got down to ten stone .
24 I got down to ten
25 Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare .
26 But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff .
27 Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead .
28 It looked odds on to go to extra holes but unfortunate for Michael he three putted , Colm got down in two won 1up .
29 It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen .
30 After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt .
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