Example sentences of "to get [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK and Ireland , whilst a few people are getting poorer , the majority of people are increasing their standard of living and most expect to get better off year after year . |
| 2 | This could be serious if you had to make a side-slip to get down into field on an early flight . |
| 3 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 4 | The food is imaginative and delicious — so good in fact that unless you have pre-booked it is virtually impossible to get in for dinner at week-ends . |
| 5 | His rapport with the children he treated was almost uncanny ; and there was in his own nature something of the immediacy and openness of a child , which , coupled with a great sense of fun , helped him to get easily into communication with all sorts of people , and to make friends . |
| 6 | I thought this was quite a plus actually , because we were able to get away with murder during the beginning , in some ways doing things that on paper looked very expensive but in reality balanced out over the year we were scheduled . ’ |
| 7 | Both the exhibition and the Show reminded us forcibly that it 's difficult to get away from politics in China . |
| 8 | I 'm hoping to get ashore after lunch for a while , but we may still get that swim . |
| 9 | If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors . |
| 10 | There was a need for vigilance of the type in which Collins specialises , since the Germans had restarted the match apparently intent on finishing it as a contest in time for the largely youthful audience at Ibrox to get home to bed at a respectable hour . |
| 11 | Every day I considered myself lucky to get home from school without serious injury . |
| 12 | I think , yeah , well he rang me , so erm , I think she was expecting , I think they , when they left the house this morning , he was thinking , he 'd be able to get home in time for it , and erm , then he got to work and the day was n't , had n't worked out the way he expected . |
| 13 | I had to get up at quarter to seven this morning . |
| 14 | seven quarter to eight , the week days when she needs to get up at quarter to seven |
| 15 | I have to get up at quarter to nine , how do you think I feel ? |
| 16 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 17 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 18 | He says oh yes I 'm very disappointed but if he 's a sick man you ca n't expect him to get up in front of 6,000 people . |
| 19 | It was so embarrassing , I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award . |
| 20 | And if you do n't let me go — right this minute ! — I 'm going to get straight in touch with the British Embassy , and … and anyone else I can think of ! ’ she added furiously . |
| 21 | ‘ I take the view that it is wise for ministers to have sufficiently long in a job to get thoroughly on top of it . ’ |
| 22 | Before the British fleet was back in position Admiral Conflans was able , on 14 November , to get out to sea with 21 ships of the line and five smaller warships . |
| 23 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |
| 24 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 25 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 26 | Mrs Sparsit 's great-aunt , ‘ an immensely fat old woman , with an inordinate appetite for butcher 's meat , and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years ’ . |
| 27 | Although I had had only two stitches at the delivery I was tightly bandaged and not allowed to get out of bed for three days . |
| 28 | Addictions do come in handy sometimes : at least you have to get out of bed for them . |
| 29 | However I did manage to get out of bed at about 6.30 a.m. , feed and myself and get us both to the stadium at the appointed time for the team photo call . |
| 30 | Took us all me time to get out of bed at nine o'clock . |