Example sentences of "be [adj] get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you are free to get on with your lives , ’ Ruth told him quietly . |
| 2 | I mean I think it 's wor as far as I 'm concerned I 'm g w I think we 're all getting out of it what we want |
| 3 | Oh , they 're all getting in on the act , are they ? thought Dalziel . |
| 4 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 5 | He 'd been lucky to get off with a year for that . |
| 6 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
| 7 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
| 8 | How much do I value what I am likely to get out of it ? |
| 9 | One resident says he has been unable to get out of his back garden after a lorry backed into the wall and buckled the gate . |
| 10 | Sadly , church people have often so dismally failed to get along with each other that they are powerless to get along with the needy in the world . |
| 11 | Several of the larger equipment companies have a mail order service , which is useful if you are unable to get out to the shops . |
| 12 | It is difficult for the athletes who know Daley to understand why so many people are unable to get along with him . |
| 13 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |
| 14 | Not only was I an only child but my dad 's father was an orphan and my mum 's family had been happy to get out of Kensal Town — which was a little down the road . |
| 15 | I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never been able to get through to you , Julius . ’ |
| 17 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 18 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 19 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 20 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 21 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 22 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 23 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 24 | I wo n't be sorry to get back to a little sanity , ’ he added in an undertone . |
| 25 | He would n't be sorry to get out of this house . |
| 26 | ( On most types of training glider it will be possible to get down to the pre-stall buffet and continue with either a slight rocking of the wings or a very gentle inner wingdrop . ) |
| 27 | ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression . |
| 28 | There did n't seem to be much to get up for . |
| 29 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
| 30 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |