Example sentences of "[adj] get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is not always easy to get up to date information on which to set the quotas , especially in a small area sample . |
| 32 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 33 | They were nice , or all right , kind or likeable or easy to get on with . |
| 34 | The other Met girls , Sheila , Marjorie , Babs , Dora and Jean were all very easy to get on with , and the Met Office was custom built for the job , with benches that were properly lit and stools the right height for us to work from . |
| 35 | Overall , the 238's layout is very easy to get on with , and it does n't take long , even for a first-timer , to get the hang of operating the buttons . |
| 36 | By all accounts , William senior was not easy to get on with the turnover of partners in the early years of the practice was rapid , until he met his match in one Major Faulks in 1905 who not only outlived him , but stayed with the firm as a consultant until 1965 when he finally retired — at the age of 90 . |
| 37 | Easy to get on with , familiar and quite literally you wo n't know how you managed before , that is of course unless your existing cooker is a New World . |
| 38 | George was a friendly person who was easy to get on with . |
| 39 | she 's easy to get on with is Eileen , probably be shattered with talking after she 'd gone , but she 's easy I mean I , there 's lots I would n't want coming to stay , but Eileen is one I do n't , I would n't mind because , well oh I know Eileen 's ways and er , er , her , my interests are very much like hers we 've similar interest with family and everything , er it 's just if you 've nothing in common with them |
| 40 | It may not seem as hard nowadays , because people know that it 's easy to get out of . |
| 41 | I really thought I could n't bear not to at least understand what he was going through , but by that time my opinion was totally irrelevant — not wanted — added to which , I 'm not easy to get along with anyway because I 'm not a ‘ yes-man ’ . |
| 42 | Clearly impressed with is new-found walking advertisement , he finds Madonna ‘ very easy to get along with . |
| 43 | But she would be relieved to get back to her own bright flat again , going about her normal Saturday chores . |
| 44 | Before the company begins to move on its new goodies , it has Open Interface version 2.1 to get out of the door . |
| 45 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 46 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
| 47 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |
| 48 | The food is imaginative and delicious — so good in fact that unless you have pre-booked it is virtually impossible to get in for dinner at week-ends . |
| 49 | According to Kuhn , the latter is characterized by total disagreement and constant debate over fundamentals , so much so that it is impossible to get down to detailed , esoteric work . |
| 50 | ‘ Look — ’ now she was finding it all but impossible to get back to her feet , and the embarrassment of having him witness her futile struggles was fast becoming unbearable ‘ — I 'm quite happy just to potter about by myself here ; you really do n't have to hang around me . ’ |
| 51 | It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show . |
| 52 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 53 | They were all so done up and seemed so aloof. , Yet , in fact they were really easy going and fine to get along with |
| 54 | It was the Reverend Baron who pointed out to his landlady that her husband and his employers , about whom he had heard a great deal , would be lucky to get back to Florence ‘ before war really takes hold ’ . |
| 55 | He peered at the menu displayed with accompanying admiring press comment outside the Trattoria San Giorgio , and decided you 'd be lucky to get out of there under £20 a head . |
| 56 | We were lucky to get out of Stalingrad . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | There were no set hours , no union to look after their interests and they were lucky to get out on a Saturday or Sunday to go to the chapel , or on certain special occasions to the cinema . |
| 59 | He 'd been lucky to get off with a year for that . |
| 60 | He 's taken them away , promising to get back to me in a couple of days . |