Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 2 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 3 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 4 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on with the job quickly . ’ |
| 5 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better get out of the City , ’ suggested Carradine . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you 'd better get out of the water . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We said , ‘ We 'd better get back to the hotel and try to figure out this country in the morning . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ As I said , I 'd better get back to the hotel . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Doctor . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Operations Room . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You … you 'd better get back to the restaurant … |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better get back in the car . |
| 17 | Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . |
| 18 | He and Kenneth started conversing using no fewer than five-syllable words before he 'd even got out of the car , and have been rabbiting happily like two philatelists over a rare collection . |
| 19 | And Chapman , 51 , was so traumatised by the experience he vowed never to get back behind the wheel , magistrates heard . |
| 20 | But I felt strongly that , like Dickens again , though not to the same extent , he needed occasionally to get out into the open : which is why he made his way down to Cornwall once or twice to see Ronald Duncan . |
| 21 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 22 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 23 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 24 | Steve said just get out of the office just get out of the office . |
| 25 | He flapped his warrant card in automatic greeting and waved a hand at Catherine who had also got out of the car . |