Example sentences of "get [adv] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her .
2 Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out .
3 Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat .
4 I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot .
5 She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase .
6 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
7 The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners .
8 Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’
9 Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side .
10 Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 .
11 Every accusation was thrown at the team , even Tunisia got in on the act .
12 Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions .
13 After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor .
14 However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act .
15 After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance .
16 By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes .
17 Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up .
18 The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh .
19 So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that .
20 More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage .
21 Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe .
22 Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm .
23 Now when the Chancellor in the budget said that he would help the poor he stopped short , there were no copper bottomed no copper bottom guarantee and then later on we had Michael Portillo got in on the act .
24 Even the Granada announcer got in on the act .
25 Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value .
26 ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’
27 It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold .
28 The K2s got away on the second attempt .
29 Yeah I reckon so I reckon that 's how it got outside on the floor !
30 PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander .
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