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

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1 And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them .
2 In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man .
3 Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby .
4 More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage .
5 But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park .
6 A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away .
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