Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn . |
| 2 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 4 | They had a restaurant in Paris and suddenly wished to get out into the country . |
| 5 | More than anything Mungo suddenly wanted to get out of the forest ; to be in his room , or talking to one of the family , or anywhere . |
| 6 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |
| 7 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 8 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 9 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 10 | Those who fail the Cl test flee in terror out onto the battlements — they just want to get out of the tower . |
| 11 | ‘ I just want to get out of the rain . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I just want to get out of the area and reach a phone . ’ |
| 13 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 14 | Speedie was just trying to get on with the game . |
| 15 | This is not Norma 's fault , she 's probably quite a nice dear who never wanted the fame , never wanted a prime minister for a husband , just wanted to get on with the washing up back in Huntingdon . |
| 16 | ‘ What would happen if anyone just wanted to get out of the partnership — I mean , without a death being involved ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's easy now to say he was hasty , yet at the time he just wanted to get out of the place because he was so ill . |
| 18 | Terry did n't want any truck with service medicos , he just wanted to get back to the States and see Madeleine , Sulome and Gabrielle . |
| 19 | Brutality , as Hill describes and felt it , was a bitter part of his prison life ; you just learnt to get down on the floor as fast as you could and cover up as best you could . |
| 20 | Jonesy was still struggling to get out of the grave , and this he managed only with his father 's help , after falling back in once . |
| 21 | STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander . |
| 22 | The occasional dinner party was a social duty ; they could hardly wait to get back to the seclusion of their own small house . |
| 23 | ‘ You know that the twins always seem to get up at the crack of dawn . |
| 24 | The final recipient has still got to get on with the work based on this small amount of information , only now with DOPACS he has a time limit . |
| 25 | it gives you more time to get on with the job of managing your business . |
| 26 | Sticks can be stabbed at you but chains can not ; they must be swung , and the heavier they are , the slower the swing — giving you more time to get out of the way . |
| 27 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 28 | She was still trying to get out of the parking space . |
| 29 | How she had ever managed to get back to the Shelbourne , she did n't know . |
| 30 | It was so wonderful that she did n't really want to get out of the car . |