Example sentences of "a [noun] get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rent a jeep to get out onto small tracks which uncover some beautiful waterfalls and rock formations . |
| 2 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 3 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 4 | If a confrontation gets out of hand , the damage to agency/client relations could be devastating . |
| 5 | Erm , if you want to know how a advisers are paid , erm you know then I er would explain that under the terms and conditions of er 's business , we 're actually paid erm a salary by , and er I obviou obviously get er you know a car to get about in etcetera , but the , the , when we place business er the er commissions that we get , generate are paid to , they go down to head office in Bournemouth , they 're then used to give us our er our you know returns , advances and what have you . |
| 6 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 7 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 8 | Michael Gough , my editor , works for me in New York and he said he went to get a key to get back in after they had closed and they said why and he said because I think that I will be back later than your gate is locked . |
| 9 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 10 | When a child gets out of line in assembly and the teacher shouts ‘ Do n't you understand English or are you just stupid ’ , or when Indian parents who do come to speak to teachers are laughed at or rebuffed , children both black and white learn just how Indians are thought of by people who matter . |
| 11 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 12 | Taking anti-depressants to get you over a hump like this makes the same sort of sense as using a crutch to get around on while a broken leg heals . |
| 13 | We had a late luncheon , cold fowl and a salad got up by Liza , walked in the Park in the afternoon , worked , and in the evening had a dish of warm milk and white bread , sprinkled with sugar , quite as Wordsworth himself might have done . |
| 14 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 15 | He felt a need to get out of London , Eric Verrico was keen to see Paris and the £40 Minton brought with him fuelled the ‘ larks ’ all four now had . |
| 16 | have a job getting out of them and er you know more or less the higher chair 's |
| 17 | Joe had a job to get through to the counter , for the pawnshop was overflowing with articles awaiting redemption . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't wish to appear ungrateful or offensive but I have a job to get back to — ’ |
| 19 | devil of a job to get out of it ! |
| 20 | Now this may be a desire to get back to a sexy woman but the tone was all wrong . |
| 21 | When a population gets out of balance with its environment disaster occurs : starvation , ecological collapse , and ultimately , the population falls upon itself for a bit of frantic nibbling and other distressed rat-type behaviour . |
| 22 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 23 | Well no , no , I did n't fancy him yesterday , he was a bit rusty , he needed a day to get back into form , but two winners ; lets mention the other one , that one in the Biddistone all age stakes , Nicholas was there , six to four on , trained by his good lady and half and hour later , in the four o'clock , finish , Shining Jewel , romped home at eleven to one in the Gainsborough Claiming Stakes , a division two race for three year olds . |
| 24 | In fact when the cleaning lady has an ‘ audit ’ of his desk and tidies up the heaps , it is a ‘ nightmare ’ , taking him up to half a day to get back on track . |
| 25 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 26 | ‘ It 'll give me a chance to get on with my baking an' that then for the WI stall , ’ she said with a nod of approval . |
| 27 | The stay in Christchurch gave William a chance to get on with his schoolwork and he did this , with a remarkable strength of purpose . |
| 28 | The ball 's he let the ball drop behind him but er he still had a chance to get back on this . |
| 29 | Well if you do it 'll give us a chance to find out whether he 's coming home today or tomorrow , and it 'll give your mum a chance to get back to Southwold |
| 30 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |