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

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1 which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday .
2 Everyone got on with the business at hand , preoccupied with the problems of food shortages , lack of funds and compliance with the rules of the Islamic order .
3 … as soon as the Empress saw a place which was totally wild with virtually unclimbable rocks everyone got out of the carriage and she set out , armed with a stout walking stick , to beat a path over huge rocks , clumps of juniper bushes , enormous ferns as high as shrubs .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby .
8 Someone got in from the sea-wall .
9 Anyway , I got through to the finals , that was really nerve-racking , and my mum and my boyfriend came along to see me in it .
10 But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’
11 and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ?
12 Anyway , we 've finished all we can eat of this Cambozola , and the wine bottle is only good for sticking candles in , and we are still sitting on the carpet lit by one small lamp somewhere over in the corner , and she keeps filling in the pauses by staring into my eyes as if she 's checking I do n't wear false eyelashes , and I start to think it 's about time I got up off the floor .
13 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
14 And I got up on the wall right ?
15 Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend .
16 And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no !
17 As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks .
18 I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday !
19 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
20 I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ?
21 Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning .
22 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
23 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
24 So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef !
25 I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps .
26 It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire !
27 I got up from the table .
28 After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London .
29 I got on with the work , tried very hard to stay jovial , and kept a smiling face .
30 She went , and I got on with the life of Ellen Parkin , about to emerge from her chrysalis , to spread her wings as Eleanor Darcy .
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