Example sentences of "get [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 2 | The first and smallest , the 600-strong Resettlement Agency , got off the ground last June . |
| 3 | A series of ‘ Famous British Film Stars ’ of 1946 , now worth £5-£10 each , apparently never got off the ground . |
| 4 | The tall dark girl got off the London train and as she passed through the barrier at Stowerton station she asked the woman collecting tickets where she could get a taxi . |
| 5 | A couple got off the train , were met by the police and put up a ferocious but unsuccessful fight : suspicion of a bank robbery the previous day , apparently , back down the line in Thunder Bay . |
| 6 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 7 | ‘ Right , ’ said Otley as soon as we got off the train , ‘ let's go and find this bloke . ’ |
| 8 | He got off the bed and walked to the window . |
| 9 | It will refuse to stand still because the last time we got off it was punished ! |
| 10 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 11 | When her mother-in-law got off the tram , Anna , waving to her , felt glad she had given her a bar of Zoya 's soap . |
| 12 | AN Anglo-Russian company got off the ground yesterday to run production and sales of a Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev airliner . |
| 13 | JOHN PERKINS , the Pontypool coach , got off the players ' bench at Rodney Parade to have a ‘ quiet word ’ with some rowdy fans during his side 's 10–10 draw with Newport . |
| 14 | ‘ Our family got off light altogether , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
| 15 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 16 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 17 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 18 | After Muir of Ord JTR got off the train at Conon Station as did I , and walked down by the river to sketch from the Telford bridge of 1809 now replaced by a modern version built in 1969 . |
| 19 | The uneasiness he felt when he got off the train returned . |
| 20 | He saw a bobby in trouble at Old Swan , got off the tram-car to help him , and he got his mac torn . |
| 21 | But the older men — forty and upwards — they got off the side walk and paced up and down the road — deferential . |
| 22 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |
| 23 | I got off the dais , |
| 24 | It got off the ground in Berlin in 1982 despite an atmosphere of increasing pressure on funds for all forms of higher education in Berlin as elsewhere in West Germany . |
| 25 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 26 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 27 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 28 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 29 | When she got off the train from Chertsey she did n't have enough money to take an omnibus . |
| 30 | Everyone got off the train at Winnipeg , one thousand , four hundred and thirteen miles along the rails from Toronto . |