Example sentences of "[adj] get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The women were asked ‘ Do you find you have too much to get through during the day ? ’ |
6 | But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home . |
7 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
8 | By all accounts , William senior was not easy to get on with the turnover of partners in the early years of the practice was rapid , until he met his match in one Major Faulks in 1905 who not only outlived him , but stayed with the firm as a consultant until 1965 when he finally retired — at the age of 90 . |
9 | Before the company begins to move on its new goodies , it has Open Interface version 2.1 to get out of the door . |
10 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
11 | Mike had managed to smuggle her out of the hotel yesterday evening , but , as he had pointed out to her , it would be impossible to get out of the country at the moment without alerting the Press . |
12 | It was the House of Commons , and the Cabinet and the Prime Minister that came from the Commons , that Bagehot saw as the efficient working parts of the Constitution as these got on with the job of actually running the show . |
13 | ‘ He would have had to have been very fast to get out to the car park in that time , ’ he said . |
14 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
15 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
16 | I think I 'll be happier to get back to the traditional gold and yellows and browns on wallflowers . |
17 | Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard . |
18 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
19 | Her father had been glad to get out to the woods where he led a gang , made a living and found , in his daughter Kitty , all he wanted for softer pleasures . |
20 | He backed out of Nisodemus 's presence and was glad to get out into the bitingly cold air . |
21 | I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’ |
22 | Many people are glad to get out of the towns with all the problems of vandalism . |
23 | 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 |
24 | And then I expect you 'll be glad to get back to the Vicarage . |
25 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
26 | The damp close air was heavy about them , it slowed their pace and they were glad to get back to the steading and watch Sullivan repairing the tractor . |
27 | So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward . |
28 | I know I shall be glad to get back across the Atlas . |
29 | Now in a sentence in the Independent and the Times and other periodicals you would find there are more words of three and four syllables than in the tabloids , but that gets back to the clarity index again . |
30 | It said , if Labour get in to the government today , will the last person who leaves Britain please put the light out . |