Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to get [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 2 | We were lucky to get out of Stalingrad . |
| 3 | It was Crane 's horse that had bolted but there was no doubt that if they were all to get out of the forest alive Crane would have to be mounted . |
| 4 | The townsfolk of Kirkbymoorside realised that while the snow lasted , the farm-wives would be unable to reach the market with their produce so Annie and Elizabeth were secure in the knowledge that whenever they were able to get out of the valley , their customers would be waiting . |
| 5 | An even more tragic fate befell many who , amid the crazed stampede , were able to get out of the fort . |
| 6 | I thought you were anxious to get out of here . ’ |
| 7 | As soon as it was possible to get out of Sleightholmedale , he wrote to Tamar to tell her that their Uncle George 's condition was worsening rapidly . |
| 8 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 9 | I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it . |
| 10 | Bet you was glad to get out of road were you ? |
| 11 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 12 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 13 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 14 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 15 | He was anxious to get out of the basement and back upstairs . |