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

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1 They got down and looked at him .
2 I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one .
3 Then she got in and sat beside him , her shopping bag on her lap .
4 No you did n't have you did n't have a finishing hand , you did n't really have a brilliant first two hands and then the pick of the one , two , three bouncer I might I might have been persuaded to play the one , two , three bouncer and hope that that got through but to finish with an ace flush but good .
5 I called , got through and spoke to a man who sounded as ordinary and as sane as I thought I was .
6 He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him
7 got up and went to work and had this bloody awful throat and I thought ,
8 But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off .
9 Pauline has got up and walked to the bathroom .
10 I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ .
11 Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think .
12 Luke 's next words are typical of faith 's inherent drive for resolution : ‘ Peter , however , got up and ran to the tomb , and , peering in , saw the wrappings . ’
13 I got up and ran after him .
14 I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her .
15 He got up and reached for the phone .
16 ‘ He drank from the moment he got up and continued throughout the day , although it did n't show .
17 Benstede got up and crossed to the bed in the far comer .
18 Merrill got up and crossed to the stationery cupboard .
19 He just got up and left without looking at me .
20 At one o'clock Rachaela ate lunch , and at five past two , half an hour too late , she got up and left for the antiques shop .
21 When Broadman got up and waddled past Ymor 's chair the thiefmaster 's arm shot out like a steel spring and grabbed the fat man by his apron .
22 Then suddenly she got up and made for the piano .
23 When I could make it , I got up and made for the nearest shelter .
24 Richard got up and balanced on the ball of one foot as if he had been seized by an attack of cramp .
25 I got up and pawed at his trousers .
26 ‘ Bill and I were left on stage gaping as they all got up and made for the exits .
27 King Crimson was being partied by a signing label and they got up and played with Donovan .
28 Lucy Lane , trying to make contact , got up and stooped over the dog , stroking his head .
29 Rachaela got up and looked at it .
30 When Stuart and I heard this we got up and looked for the nearest exit .
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