Example sentences of "get [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |
| 2 | The lesson of Mr Krenz is that those who can not cope get crushed by the engine .. |
| 3 | There 's the ‘ I 'm so fat I could be a turkey ’ type of robin ; the ‘ Is n't there more to life than standing on this stupid twig ’ robin ; and , the special favourite , the robin with the ‘ How come the cattle always get to go in the stable ? ’ look . |
| 4 | They say you 're an adult but because you are still in the school situation you still get treated as a child . |
| 5 | Used regularly the short clippings get hidden below the surface of the lawn so you do n't have to dispose of them , but long grass is left in bands on the surface and usually needs to be raked up and removed . |
| 6 | Now you go into a seniors citizens ' club , you enter your name and you get registered in the register , you get your cup of tea and then you get social activity . |
| 7 | By the time of anthesis , there is time for four generations and a single insect can by then have given rise to 4000 juveniles : they get trapped between the anthers and the petals as the ! lowers open and , as adults , feed on the pollen . |
| 8 | The rougher the surface , the darker the wash will appear when dry , as pools of colour get trapped within the tooth of the textured sheet . |
| 9 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 10 | But it is totally universal as well in that it is also a simple parable , like Dead Poets Society , about the necessity to follow your instincts and not get trapped by the drive to conform . |
| 11 | What happens is that both the priests get tipped into the water , one of them hits his head on a rock and the other one rescues him . |
| 12 | Hardest hit are small businessmen and the unemployed who get sucked into a string of debt , partly as a result of easy credit , added Mr Milburn . |
| 13 | ‘ You get sucked into the world of married couples , and it 's hard to keep up with bachelor friends . |
| 14 | Why ? you get get snogged at a disco . |
| 15 | It is clear also that there can be an iteration back from any stage in the process to any previous one as views get modified during the change process . |
| 16 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 17 | ‘ We get attacked by a monster , the monster gets zapped by a flying saucer and now you fancy a chat with God Almighty . |
| 18 | You get caught between a weight pushing down , and the seat , the pressure on the seat . |
| 19 | ‘ Before when I was boostin' it was shoplifting , misdemeanour , doin' 90 days — nowadays it 's robbery one , and attempted assault if you get caught with a razor . |
| 20 | Do make sure that you get the ball down quickly enough to run it ; avoid jumping bounces that get caught by the slope . |
| 21 | Get born in Iran , emigrate to the US , get caught in a pot you should never have been in , and wait till it climbs into seven figures before you call and fill an 11–1 inside straight . |
| 22 | You get caught in the lavvy |
| 23 | Never mind , she said , three quarter length sleeves are much easier to wear when you want to do machine knitting — long sleeves get caught in the machine ! |
| 24 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 25 | You get one caution an and er I thought the limit was two you get t two cautions and you get took to the court . |
| 26 | Alcohol deprives boozers of their livers and their memories , and ends the lives of all too many innocents who get smashed on the roads by the inebriated . |
| 27 | Oh yeah does the little kid get smashed by a train ? |
| 28 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 29 | Why did n't the word standard get put in the place of quality we can have standard assurance as opposed to quality assurance ? |
| 30 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |