Example sentences of "we got [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 2 | After stops for punctures we got up to the snow . |
| 3 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there . |
| 5 | We got up from the seat and strolled along the terrace . |
| 6 | The next morning we got up in the dark as before , but the water was frozen , so we could not wash . |
| 7 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 8 | I done it , I did it all neat and tidy the whole way round till we got round to the door and I says you can do it , no way am I cutting round there big chunk |
| 9 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 10 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 11 | When we got out into the open sea beyond the fiord , we began to see more auks , mainly Brüinnich 's guillemots and little auks , and a lot more fulmar flying around . |
| 12 | And then we got out on the course and we realized . |
| 13 | He told me that as we got out of the car , a boy asked , ‘ Who 's the little nigger ? ’ |
| 14 | We got out of the buggy and went through all these marquees where amongst the exhibits were a striking exhibit of African violets from Tony Clement 's African Violet Centre , at King 's Lynn ; a magnificent display of prizewinning delphiniums and begonias from Blackmore & Langdon who always win a ‘ Gold ’ at Chelsea ; an exquisite display of orchids from Thailand ; planted containers shown by Mastergardener of Banbury ; a beautiful display of lilies by Jacques Amand of Stanmore ; and a Herb Nursery of two hundred varieties , exhibited by Caroline Holmes Herbs of Denham , in Suffolk . |
| 15 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 16 | We got out of the way damn fast . |
| 17 | He just stood there , a moment of shocked surprise as we got out of the Toyota . |
| 18 | When we got out of the car , we found the only sound came from the chirping crickets . |
| 19 | And the thing that sounded like a telephone number — I wrote it down as soon as we got out of the attic — " One-x-nine-two-four " … |
| 20 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 21 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 22 | We got out of the cul-de-sac ? |
| 23 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 24 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 25 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 26 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 27 | I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes . |
| 28 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 29 | Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry . |
| 30 | She showed me a little bottle before we got back on the truck . |