Example sentences of "[noun] got off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Benny got off the bus on the Quays , she saw Eve waiting , with her raincoat collar turned up against the rain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even more gripping than this documentary feature is Apted 's fictional movie based on the same incident , Thunderheart , a tight , concentrated political drama which the director got off the ground thanks to the backing of Robert De Niro . |
| 4 | Caro got off the near-empty Sunday bus and walked quickly through the light drizzle towards her parents ' house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The following morning a person who was out with his gun , in expectation of falling in with some sort of wild fowl , perceiving an appearance rather uncommon , ventured to approach the spot ; upon his coming up the dog got off the body , and after repeatedly shaking himself to get disentangled from the accumulated snow , encouraged the sportsman ( a Mr. Finch ) , by actions of the most significant nature , to come near the side of his master . |
| 7 | Jess got off the bench and parted the bushes , peering into the laurel darkness , her heart pounding and her breath coming shallow and fast . |
| 8 | Fearing the worst , the driver and second man got off the locomotive and examined the train and the line side , but could find nothing untoward . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mandy got off the bed , and stretched . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So Margot got off the bus and the policeman says , now you have to really vigilant today Margot there 's a lot of bombs in Lisburn Right ! |
| 13 | AN Anglo-Russian company got off the ground yesterday to run production and sales of a Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev airliner . |
| 14 | When my mother got off the train we walked across the road to the bus stop , only to find the same man jumping on the Kirkby bus . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And it was so nearly 186 for six when , two balls later , new batsman Mark Ramprakash got off the mark with an edged single which flew past slip 's left hand . |
| 17 | Dada got off the sofa , pulling her on to reluctant feet . |