Example sentences of "get [pron] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | India certainly got its own back for the British Raj by imposing this horrific version of the bungalow upon us . |
| 2 | ‘ When you 've got it full up to the top , splash a bit of Paraffin on the top and put the match to it . |
| 3 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 4 | They were either born rich , or they 're getting their own back on the kids who beat them up at school . ’ |
| 5 | She only saves a matter of fifteen P and gets it all back on the petrol |
| 6 | In a Post Office you have to , you see , unless I 'm misunderstanding it really , you have to well I might as well , if I go and get it all out from the bank . |
| 7 | By launching the new forum Mr Heseltine is getting his own back on the now weakened Mr Lamont . |
| 8 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 9 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 10 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 11 | Unable to get their own back on the media hacks , Charles and Diana seemed happy to let the comic pair , clutching drinks and slurring their words , do it for them . |
| 12 | MIDDLESBROUGH players are out to get their own back against the team that killed their dream of a first-ever major Wembley final . |
| 13 | Right , I must get some literature actually from Barry because as you know , it , it , we ca n't get it all out of the now , |
| 14 | The Scotch Corner-based driver was beaten in the A series final by Dalton le Dale 's Ian Sandwith and was determined to get his own back in the Superfinal . |
| 15 | I thought this was marvellous , good for the lads , and got us all out in the open air . |