Example sentences of "get [prep] the " 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 | ‘ Right , ’ said Otley as soon as we got off the train , ‘ let's go and find this bloke . ’ |
| 7 | He got off the bed and walked to the window . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | AN Anglo-Russian company got off the ground yesterday to run production and sales of a Rolls-Royce-powered Tupolev airliner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The uneasiness he felt when he got off the train returned . |
| 15 | He saw a bobby in trouble at Old Swan , got off the tram-car to help him , and he got his mac torn . |
| 16 | But the older men — forty and upwards — they got off the side walk and paced up and down the road — deferential . |
| 17 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |
| 18 | I got off the dais , |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When she got off the train from Chertsey she did n't have enough money to take an omnibus . |
| 25 | Everyone got off the train at Winnipeg , one thousand , four hundred and thirteen miles along the rails from Toronto . |
| 26 | Jess got off the bench and parted the bushes , peering into the laurel darkness , her heart pounding and her breath coming shallow and fast . |
| 27 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 28 | Years after the event , an Indian revealed to Irwin 's Military Secretary that he was detailed to assassinate the viceroy on a visit to Lucknow , but , seeing his delightful smile when he got off the train , changed his mind . |
| 29 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 30 | When Benny got off the bus on the Quays , she saw Eve waiting , with her raincoat collar turned up against the rain . |