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

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1 As expected Object World ‘ 92 got off to a dramatic and bitchy start with the opening panel session which , on the day , featured Paul Allchin , Microsoft Corp 's vice president for advanced products , Philippe Kahn , founder of Borland International Inc , Steve McKay , SunSoft Inc vice president for user environment software and Joe Guglielmi , head of Taligent Inc as the great and glorious warm-up act for NeXT Inc 's Steve Jobs who topped the bill .
2 Harris did n't get on with Kirk Douglas when they made The Heroes of Telemark in 1965 ( but then at that time few got on with Douglas ) , and just a year earlier he crossed swords with Mr Epic himself , Charlton Heston , on the set of Major Dundee in Mexico .
3 These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it .
4 But I was dead sure that the last item would take some getting round to .
5 I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling .
6 It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too .
7 I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength .
8 Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again .
9 I got virtually equal marks across arts and sciences for O levels , so making a choice at A level was difficult , but I felt a bit swayed by the fact that people said it 's best to do science subjects as far as jobs and university places go ; it 's difficult to get on to arts courses , but it 's easier to get on to science courses … that 's really why I chose science , ultimately .
10 Why do some men find it easier to get along with big-busted , mindless blondes ?
11 Much easier to get along with . ’
12 And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ?
13 erm By comparison in A-level grades it 's easier to get in at Sussex in Chemistry than it is in English .
14 Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing .
15 We did n't half get up to some mischief , I 'll tell you .
16 The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive .
17 We have therefore decided to give members until 31 March 1993 to get back to us with their comments in the hope of achieving the most desirable end result .
18 Possibly the most trouble-free and profitable course in the first year is to grass-let part of the farm , on your own terms , thereby keeping the farm in work whilst leaving you free to get on with your development plans .
19 ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression .
20 In this way the haulier spends as little time as possible on the matter and is free to get on with what he does best — haulage .
21 He leaves me free to get on with it and I like that .
22 Beneath this is a system which takes charge of managing computing parameters , leaving each application free to get on with its job .
23 ‘ Well , you are free to get on with your lives , ’ Ruth told him quietly .
24 Whatever their riders might desire , those English mounts broke , reared , panicked , cannoned into one another to get out of the way , and doing so caused utter confusion and collapse amongst the enemy .
25 Nomes had to scramble over one another to get out of the way when one of the floorboards in the manager 's office was pulled up .
26 The women were asked ‘ Do you find you have too much to get through during the day ? ’
27 There did n't seem to be much to get up for .
28 ‘ Though goodness knows there is n't much to get back to . ’
29 He was two last Christmas , he 's lovely an'all , but you see it does n't take much to get out of a routine .
30 But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home .
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