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

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1	She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin .
2	I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager .
3	As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England .
4	I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case .
5	At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood .
6	We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity .
7	Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character .
8	When I finally got up onto the wing it was dark .
9	The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton .
10	I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off !
11	But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand .
12	They just got on with the job .
13	Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ?
14	Well , we just got out into the hallway where all these mothers were standing round and
15	And then er when they came back he says she says you know and I just says er and when she got out of the car , Dawn was out in the gar in the garden walking , and she said she just got out of the car and she looked over at Dawn like that took the kids in and she said I just says here you are , she said , come on Ashley over here , you stay and play in your back and your side of the er street from now on .
16	I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver .
17	I quickly got out of the barrel and was in time to join Hunter and Dr Livesey and the rest , at the side of the ship .
18	We were , too — at least , the two nearside wheels were , but being the middle of the night there was a fortunate scarcity of pedestrians , and we quickly got back onto the road without disaster .
19	After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off .
20	You just automatically got up in the morning , jumped in your car , went to work , you were there for half six , sun shone , cup of tea , read the Sun , sit down , get on your lathe , have your break at ten o'clock , lunch time , have your meal and then you have a game of football outside in the car park or whatever , and you had a daily little routine .
21	They both got out of the car .
22	Rennie later got out of the car with Marita and took her to a house on London Road in Gloucester where the couple had previously lived together .
23	Eddie also got through in the singles with a 21–7 win over Eddie Price and Maureen Fearon , the Irish international bowler from Dungannon beat L. Hill 21–17 and then teamed up with Fra Brady to beat A and M Hoey in the mixed pairs .
24	The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners .
25	The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh .
26	Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value .
27	She often got up in the night .
28	A few even got back into the army .
29	I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office .
30	Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion .