Example sentences of "get [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ You get sucked into the world of married couples , and it 's hard to keep up with bachelor friends . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Do make sure that you get the ball down quickly enough to run it ; avoid jumping bounces that get caught by the slope . |
| 13 | You get caught in the lavvy |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Why did n't the word standard get put in the place of quality we can have standard assurance as opposed to quality assurance ? |
| 19 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 20 | But the Horde have always had other off-duty characters and both Simon 's fascination with Bryan Ferry and their collective alternative identity as the Last Bandits get reintegrated into the fold with the two ballads , ‘ Over Here ’ , and ‘ Friends In Time ’ . |
| 21 | Oh do n't worry about putting them in piles , they only get chucked in the bottom of the box |
| 22 | The only thing he has done wrong is get injured at the start of the season . ’ |
| 23 | I I er I er our office now appears in exactly the same way as the other two , namely that you need to announce yourself and who you are before you get let in the door . |
| 24 | These untested beliefs get built into the culture of many organisations . ’ |
| 25 | We get built into the fabric of national being . " |
| 26 | It was one of those religious pamphlets that occasionally get pushed through the letterbox , only to be instantly thrown away : The Watchtower . |
| 27 | It is not until they get accepted into the Project that we find the problem emerging that perhaps senior staff are not supportive . |
| 28 | How much additional pension you get depends on the amount of your earnings over and above the lower earnings limit for each complete tax year since April 1978 . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , Daak , ’ she said , ‘ get going with the hedge trimmer . |
| 30 | Doug Polen ( 12 ) , Takahiro Sohwa ( 10 ) and Michael Doohan ( 11 ) get going in the world 's toughest race . |