Example sentences of "to get [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were all to get on as a family , she would have to be careful about introducing Richard to the children . |
| 2 | I 've got to get on with a job I 'm paid to do . ’ |
| 3 | well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ? |
| 4 | Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing . |
| 5 | Is it particularly difficult to get in as a chemist , for example ? |
| 6 | To get in on a scholarship means passing little short of brilliantly . |
| 7 | She 'd read Shakespeare , Pete had n't ; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school , which he 'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles ' Notes . |
| 8 | The narrow High Street is easily blocked as traffic builds up behind the heavy goods vehicles trying to get through on a route avoiding the increased toll on the Severn Bridge . |
| 9 | which was n't an unreasonable sort of target , erm we would get through everybody we had to get through in a year . |
| 10 | I 've got to get over to a village out on the Bologna road and I can easily drive there via Fiesole . |
| 11 | DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament . |
| 12 | And the poser 's dead embarrassed because this other boy knows him and he 's just spotted him trying to get off with a girl in a shop , not his sort of style at all , and he blushes all over , scarlet , even his ears , I noticed the ears . |
| 13 | He 'd been lucky to get off with a year for that . |
| 14 | And if I had to play them today , I 'd have to get off in a room with a record player , probably for a couple of hours and learn them . ’ |
| 15 | He felt his way across the joists in front of him , got his legs free from the cupboard and was able to get up into a crouch , balancing on a joist , hands just above his head , holding on to rough , undressed wood . |
| 16 | It 's easy and it would have been easy for me to get up on a platform or to go into the department and say , look lads , you know , we feel that you 're justified in walking out the door . |
| 17 | You try to get up for a cup of tea |
| 18 | Last week , Jarman had n't quite decided whether they were to talk to the audience or simply sleep through the exhibition 's four-day run — ‘ although they 'll be allowed to get up for a pee and lunch , ’ he added generously . |
| 19 | When you have to get up from a settee , it will take less effort if you first come to the edge of it before attempting to stand . |
| 20 | Strategy was necessary to get out on a date alone . |
| 21 | we were lucky to get this because chap er wanted to get out into a house really and he had one offer er from down south and they 'd put in and looked and they er and they sort of bo had n't followed it up , so |
| 22 | It 'll do him good to get out for a while ; it 's being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Luckily , they managed to get out without a scratch , ’ said a spokesman for the UN Protection Force , Unprofor . |
| 24 | What other things is people likely to get out of a holiday though ? |
| 25 | She felt as though her brain were clambering around her skull like a wasp trying to get out of a jam jar . |
| 26 | The VWA , one of five Dutch sado-masochism associations , is recommending stricter fire safety regulations because ‘ people who are handcuffed or tied up need more time to get out of a building ’ . |
| 27 | From the children 's point of view , what they really want to get out of a project is precisely the content which , for teachers , has just been relegated to a secondary position . |
| 28 | What do I want to get out of a job ? |
| 29 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 30 | Trying to get out of a prosecution and into a cosy mental home . ’ |