Example sentences of "an [noun] get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening , as an excuse to get out of the house , she went with a letter to the post office . |
| 2 | ‘ They used their failure to get sponsorship as an excuse to get out , ’ says Mario with understandable bitterness , and what hurt him most was that they strung him along until well into 1976 , despite the fact that he could easily have had another drive . |
| 3 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 4 | I say , it took us three quarters of an hour to get there , three quarters of an hour to get there , just over the half an hour getting back . |
| 5 | It could take a Harvard client up to half an hour to get through to his dealer on the telephone . |
| 6 | No one else was sure if they agreed , but they did know it had taken him nearly half an hour to get through , and the conversation had been brief . |
| 7 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 8 | It took about just over half an hour to get back . |
| 9 | It provides an opportunity to get out of the private rented sector . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm grateful to Omagh and Roy McCreadie for giving me an opportunity to get back into senior soccer . |
| 11 | The Marshal would see it only as an attempt to get back at Ebert . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman I am going to be brief within the er triscale and resources we have available to us we may , I think , a reason of what an attempt to get back in current idiom , back to basics . |
| 13 | I took that to be a quiet word of warning and an instruction to get on with the game . |
| 14 | First , however , there was an opening to get through . |
| 15 | Daniel suppressed fairly easily an impulse to get up and open the door for him . |
| 16 | The scope for an entrepreneur to get in on the ground floor and turn petrol stations into shops supplying parts and oils was obvious — to those with an eye for business . |
| 17 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 18 | " How many ? " , etc. ( e.g. " How many arrow slits are there in the north wall ? " ) , but should include questions of " Why ? " and " How ? " ( e.g. " Explain why it is so difficult for an attacker to get in through the castle gate " ) . |
| 19 | Roland gave me a new tennis racquet ( which I know he could n't afford because Moonstone is ‘ on the brink ’ ) which is a great improvement on my last one , and an encouragement to get out on court . |
| 20 | Make an effort to get on with one another , at least . ’ |
| 21 | In an effort to get on with people , most other unpleasantries have been removed . |
| 22 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 23 | Seb was in Anna 's room the next evening , talking vainly in an effort to get through to her , when his mother came up the stairs and into the room . |
| 24 | ‘ My surgeon says further surgery would be morally wrong as it could affect my future health but I had to make an effort to get back after the England tour went wrong . |
| 25 | Before she could make an effort to get out a few intelligible words , though , he shouldered her roughly aside and strode into the house . |
| 26 | You must end his solo visits now and make an effort to get out and build your romantic life outside your family circle . |
| 27 | For example , if they are both jobs which require an ability to get on well with people point this out . |
| 28 | I think there 's another point around that about erm , the image that 's portrayed by the media and and to be successful in your career you must be a slim , well made up woman erm , and thinness equates with success and an ability to get on in life . |