Example sentences of "getting [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've given up smoking and I 'm getting enrolled as a soldier . " |
| 2 | ‘ The bag may well have saved your life , first by doubling as a lifebelt , then by getting caught on a needle of rock in the inlet . |
| 3 | The absence of deals has led to speculation that advertisers , wary of getting caught in a US-Japan economic crossfire , are ‘ frightened ’ of Yamaguchi because of her Japanese name and heritage . |
| 4 | ( There is always a danger of pinning in any kayak or canoe but on rivers the chances of getting trapped in a boat are , of course , much higher than on the sea . ) |
| 5 | Reading between the lines , the tribunal may have suspected that the employer was merely using the sentence as a convenient excuse for getting rid of a man whose record was not unblemished . |
| 6 | Sometimes to claim too close a relationship became the way of getting rid of a wife , particularly if she had not produced male children . |
| 7 | Getting rid of a nuisance that could be there . |
| 8 | Like getting rid of a nuisance that could be there . |
| 9 | To write off the ideas and conclusions which one has reached in order to allow an accommodation with other people 's expectations may mean getting rid of a conclusion which the manager had reached after listening to and observing other people 's experience . |
| 10 | ‘ Wanting , moulding me to your desire , getting rid of a hunger that will be gone by nightfall . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , the rats 'd thank us for getting rid of a human , ’ he went on . |
| 12 | Or they might decide they want to learn how to read , that they want information about birth control , or advice about getting rid of a caique ( local boss ) . |
| 13 | Getting rid of a flat ? |
| 14 | It 's always easier getting rid of a player rather than replacing one as Cavan found to their cost . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 16 | The Foundation has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of Distributed File System bugs . |
| 17 | It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs . |
| 18 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 19 | Getting started on a rehabilitation regime sometimes requires help with detoxification , a process to remove excess chemicals from the body . |
| 20 | And not since Newsweek 's 1986 cover story ‘ The Marriage Crunch ’ , which professed that single women over 40 had a better chance of getting killed by a terrorist than getting married , has a general-interest magazine article caused such discussion among women . |
| 21 | Both were equally unsteady platforms for a marksman but that did n't preclude one of them getting killed by a chance shot . |
| 22 | Russell Barkley suggests , for example , that , for children aged four and five , three tokens are appropriate for jobs like getting dressed without a fuss , clearing up the table , putting away toys , getting ready for and staying in bed . |
| 23 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 24 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |