Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He seems so untrusting , so unwilling to let other people get on with things on their own . |
| 2 | Why ca n't they simply get on with things ? |
| 3 | I loved it too , because I could get on with things while he was bouncing . |
| 4 | Then he could jolly well get on with things — and came out into the passage . |
| 5 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 6 | ‘ Now let's get on with things . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you get on with women better than men , Bob ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | So we stick to arguing about power within I say a party , and we do not get on about policies and programmes . |
| 9 | How did Nick get on at darts last night then ? |
| 10 | Rabbit fleas must get on to ferrets from time to time . |
| 11 | Colin said : ‘ Let's get on to spirits . |
| 12 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 13 | I mean , you do n't get down to things and then break off for refreshments , do you ? ’ |
| 14 | Let's get down to details , shall we ? ’ |
| 15 | The sergeant — his pace blackened with boot polish — assured me , ‘ You 'll get through at Clones . ’ |
| 16 | In the ideal conditions for wave riding the wind is blowing parallel to the shore but , as with jumping , you can get away with winds that blow slightly onshore . |
| 17 | ‘ Boy , did we get away with things ! ’ she says with relish . |
| 18 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 19 | So , are you saying that Johnson , despite the fact that he was dealing with human types , human beings , was actually more realistic in terms of how the world as a whole works in that , bad people do get away with things if they 're good enough ? |
| 20 | A big tank should just about do , at a push , you 'll get away with 48″ × 15″ × 12″ ( 120 × 38 × 30cm ) , but you really need 60″ × 18″ × 15″ ( 150 × 45 × 38cm ) to be fair . |
| 21 | And I ca n't get away with tights . |
| 22 | But routes where the service is poor may get away with rises of 4.5 per cent . |
| 23 | I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats |
| 24 | Unlike the suburbs , where no one of note — except H. G. Wells — had lived , here you could n't get away from VIPs . |
| 25 | The more we can get away from miracles , major improbabilities , fantastic coincidences , large chance events , and the more thoroughly we can break large chance events up into a cumulative series of small chance events , the more satisfying to rational minds our explanations will be . |
| 26 | Since the English language has more than 40 phonemes , and we have only 26 letters with which to spell them , we can not get away from digraphs altogether . |
| 27 | She and husband Tom have bought a villa a stone 's throw from the BBC 's Spanish soap set — so they can get away from tourists at home ! |
| 28 | Even then , if at all possible , he should get up for meals . |
| 29 | ‘ As soon as my leg is better I 'll get back to things as before ’ |
| 30 | Let's get back to basics . |