Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
2 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
3 When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate .
4 If it is , it none the less dates back explicitly to 1961 when he played Littlechap , the Everyman figure who makes it big , in Stop The World — I Want To Get Off at the Queen 's .
5 I love rap but in the future I want to get back to the funk .
6 Stich said later : ‘ I want to get back to the world top 10 — that 's my goal . ’
7 ‘ Thanks anyway but I want to get back to the hotel and soak my shoulder in a hot bath .
8 Unless there are any snags , I want to get back to the workshop .
9 I want to get back to the farm .
10 I want to get back to the office . ’
11 Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid !
12 Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to .
13 I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again .
14 I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’
15 No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain .
16 so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still .
17 The afternoon er I like to get up in the morning I like to talk and sing be happy !
18 I like to get out on the road when I can or go to the studio .
19 I like to get down to the sea and talk to the waves , ’ one housewife said to another , on the bus .
20 ‘ Well — yes — I remember getting out of the car , but not much about climbing the hill or making the camp . ’
21 ‘ By when do I have to get out of the house ? ’
22 Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush .
23 I try to get out on the hill for either a call-out or a practice at least once a month with my team — the Furness Mountain Rescue Team which deals with an area of the southern Lake District .
24 No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself
25 Even if I do get out into the outer cellar unbound , what can I do ?
26 ‘ Ah , but I love getting back to the North , ’ says Sergei , and I follow his gaze to a landscape like a sheet of cartridge paper .
27 Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him .
28 I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there
29 ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way .
30 Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me .
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