Example sentences of "get us [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's especially interesting because our vocalist is female and black , which not only avoids the Tin Machine comparisons , but it gets us away from the whole rock'n'roll boy 's club scenario . |
| 2 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 3 | And this gets us back to looking at process . |
| 4 | It gets us off to a wonderful start . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Get us away from here , ’ he said sharply , and the other man guided the smaller boat away , allowing it to pick up speed . |
| 6 | And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance . |
| 7 | And I get us up in the morning now and , she said she said the temperature rises to sometimes a hundred and twenty in the summer ! |
| 8 | I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division . |
| 9 | To calm us down , get us out of the house . |
| 10 | We 'd get our demands because anything was done to shut us up and get us out of their offices . |
| 11 | There 's the notorious low-rise Noble Court stranded beside a highway overlooking the Tyne with " Get us out of this hell " written on the wall . |
| 12 | ‘ Get us out of this alleyway , ’ Rex shouted . |
| 13 | There 's the notorious lowrise Noble Court stranded beside a highway overlooking the Tyne with " Get us out of this hell " written on the wall . |
| 14 | There was also a Corporal of the week — Vigno — and his duties included the more mundane tasks of getting us up in the mornings and making sure that the rooms were kept clean . |
| 15 | ‘ Then I 'll work out a route for getting us back behind our own lines . ’ |
| 16 | And , er after the break , it 'll be Anne from Hither Green , getting us off on our section of phone calls . |
| 17 | ‘ That will take us four hours , getting us in at midnight . |
| 18 | Abrams , having mumbled about ‘ the gratitude of the secretary ( of state ) and of the President for getting us out of this jam ’ , was asked by Ibnu again : ‘ But what concrete do we get out of this ? ’ |
| 19 | So I said , Screw this — I 'm getting us out of here . |
| 20 | Again , that does n't get us anywhere at the moment , but it does slightly bear out the possibility that the man was a foreigner which would explain our total failure so far to get him identified . " |
| 21 | O. Wilson doctrine that man is " a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon " will not get us anywhere at all . |
| 22 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 23 | When Silver et al talked of ‘ securing the long term future of Leeds ’ I envisaged that as meaning we have to bite the bullet a little now , but once the ground has been finished — the revenue from the Euro champs will get us back on an even keel ( maybe into the black ) . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by . |
| 25 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 26 | And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police ; Lenin 's Kulaks in the cattle trains , Devil 's Island , English prisons . |
| 27 | We should be able to see whether our plan is optimistic or pessimistic and it should then get us back to , it 'll ring bells . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , I believe that the CA approach can get us further with the study of code switching than other approaches tried so far , and it is on that basis that I have chosen to use it in this book . |
| 29 | Talking can often get us out of sticky situations : talking sense to somebody , calming an explosive situation , giving the person a chance to back off without losing pride , or even pointing out the consequences or pointlessness of the whole exercise . |
| 30 | At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience . |