Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 When you came to get your your contract with er te te te and you were all in the same c contract , was that because you got together as a union , or whether you got t together as the worker ?
2 ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could .
3 so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through .
4 ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation .
5 I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away !
6 It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away .
7 ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells .
8 So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal .
9 A group of directors and employees got together for a discussion group and the resulting lively debate was recorded on a video currently doing the rounds of BNFL sites .
10 " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " .
11 Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage .
12 As early as 1970 , before linguistics became a separate department , the small group of linguistic teachers at Lancaster got together round a table , and discussed the idea of having a special research project which would be centred at Lancaster .
13 The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired .
14 The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people .
15 It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience .
16 Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him .
17 Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds .
18 Mac got away to a quite blistering start .
19 Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds .
20 In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict .
21 The perpetrator , the young Rugby lock , Smith , got away with a stern lecture from referee Steve Lander , who had been alerted to the incident by his touch judge .
22 SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead .
23 BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg
24 Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round .
25 In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored .
26 A BRITISH villain who got away with a £292 million haul in the world 's biggest mugging was murdered by a Mafia hitman .
27 ‘ Jamie got away with a black eye .
28 Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday .
29 And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries .
30 Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’
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