Example sentences of "[vb past] to get [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kissed her and held her and tried to get out of the house without saying goodbye to anyone . |
| 2 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 3 | ‘ You tried to get out of the black hole with an ordinary rocket . |
| 4 | At least my father tried to get out of the trap , but I doubt if Jones has ever struggled , even with his conscience . |
| 5 | After driving to Rolls Wood Group [ Repair & Overhauls ] Ltd , they tried to get out of the car . |
| 6 | The pilots were drunk and half-naked ; they got no help from the French girls , who simply screamed and tried to get out of the window . |
| 7 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 8 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 9 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 10 | Seeing how low she was , Anthony decided that she needed to get out of the house and gave her reluctant permission to spend half of each day in court . |
| 11 | Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush . |
| 12 | Mrs Thwaites and I followed the path made in the snow by the animals and managed to get out of the dale all right . |
| 13 | They did n't get far , of course , but they managed to get out of the prison itself … ’ |
| 14 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 15 | The mother and her children , who have not been named , managed to get out of the house before the flames spread . |
| 16 | Billy made to get out of the cab but the policeman held up his hand . |
| 17 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 18 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 19 | I had to get out of the business . |
| 20 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 21 | She suddenly knew she had to get out of the house . |
| 22 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 23 | He had to get out of the school . |
| 24 | Tracey Anne McLaughlan told Sheriff David Smith : ‘ He said I had to get out of the house , that Mr Kelbie was riddled with AIDS . |
| 25 | ‘ What would happen if anyone just wanted to get out of the partnership — I mean , without a death being involved ? ’ |
| 26 | He wanted to get out of the shed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | I was frightened by the helpless , shaking anger that had hold of me ; I wanted to get out of the room . |
| 30 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |