Example sentences of "he [modal v] get [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Wilson had told him he should get out of the house more . |
| 2 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 3 | P.C. Clifford would have welcomed the tea , but said that he must get back to the scene of the tragedy . |
| 4 | He 'll get there in the end but we ca n't wait . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The only way he 'll get back in the England setup is by getting promotion . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition . |
| 7 | And with a short night 's sleep behind him and a miserable hour ahead of him before he could get away to the hospital , the day would be spoiled before it started . |
| 8 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 9 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 10 | There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof . |
| 11 | He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery . |
| 12 | I 'd built a cat flap in the flat door so he could get into the rest of the house and one more in the back door so that he could get out into the square yard of concrete which our landlord Nassim called our patio . |
| 13 | When my sister was a baby he used to get up in the night to see her . |
| 14 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 15 | Ladbroke 's had a book open on whether he would get round inside the distance but the far spicier price would be odds against him in bawling out a porter in Bangkok . |
| 16 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 17 | Anyway it would be interesting to learn just at what point he would get around to the subject of Rob . |
| 18 | Know-how is all important — and it is quite typical for a deputy head following an advanced part-time degree in education management to sigh with relief at the start of a module about , for instance , the management of assessment and to say that this was precisely what his head — with an eye mainly on the short term — hoped he would get out of the course . |
| 19 | He was not resentful , because he would get there in the end . |
| 20 | He will get on with the job . ’ |
| 21 | He can get out of the window , but how can he get across to the fire escape ? ’ |
| 22 | He can get down to the nitty gritty and fight inside or he can stand back and box . |