Example sentences of "[noun sg] have got out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates , victims of crime , the police and even offenders agree cautioning has got out of hand . |
| 2 | Sixty million pounds this Council has got out of Europe . |
| 3 | The trouble was , as the Windscale fire had shown , once the nuclear reaction had got out of control , then those problems could become extremely serious indeed . |
| 4 | Wait until the driver or the passenger has got out of the car and , as they approach you , quickly reverse back down the road so that you are out of their reach and have room to manoeuvre . |
| 5 | She felt as astonished as if the older woman had got out of her chair suddenly , and struck her across the face . |
| 6 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 7 | Lift your chin up cos your collar 's got out of your pinny somehow or other . |
| 8 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |