Example sentences of "was [adj] get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to . |
| 2 | It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway . |
| 3 | The servants would know whether it was possible to get back down the valley . |
| 4 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 5 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
| 6 | He backed out of Nisodemus 's presence and was glad to get out into the bitingly cold air . |
| 7 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 8 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 9 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 10 | Feeling oddly bereft and desolate , besieged by Dolly 's incessant chatter , Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel . |
| 11 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 12 | He was anxious to get out of the basement and back upstairs . |