Example sentences of "get [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 'e 's gettin' out an' about now . ’ |
| 2 | She was obviously relieved to have got out and to be on the boat home . |
| 3 | Word had got about as to why she had disappeared on compassionate leave and she began receiving many invitations for such recreational activities as were available : film shows , dances or simply a get-together in the local inn . |
| 4 | I did not wipe the offending word off the blackboard , but as I was packing up my books and papers at the end of the class , a girl got up and without a word erased it , to a scattering of applause . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes again , wondering how long , and then opened them wide , staring in disbelief as he withdrew from her , his act far from complete , got up and with the purest gesture of impatience she had ever seen , threw an Oriental robe of some kind in garish , tribal colours , around his shoulders . |
| 6 | Well , cos with him being on night , I do n't suppose he got up till about |
| 7 | You travel south and then west over slow , winding roads to the westernmost tip of Mull , to Fionnphort , a weatherbeaten hamlet perched on the edge of the world , defaced by litter , plastic bottles and dirty nappies , discarded as tourists get on and off the ferries . |
| 8 | And her daughter I think she must have been getting on because around the time she told me that she was eighty , she happened to mention that her daughter was forty . |
| 9 | The Colemans were driven to Filanta Court , on Archbishop Makarios Avenue , and handed the keys of No. 62B , a large three-bedroomed apartment with a balcony overlooking the port of Larnaca from which everybody getting on or off the ferry from Lebanon could be observed through binoculars . |
| 10 | But higher speeds than the normal three kilometres per hour pose problems getting on and off the moving walkway . |
| 11 | There 's an art to getting on and off the thing — most people fall the first few times . |
| 12 | Keep your entrance and exit positive , there are no rules about getting on and off the floor — use your ingenuity but keep it snappy if you decide to run on and off . |
| 13 | ‘ I need help getting on and off the train and British Rail provides a ramp for this , but for about a month it 's only been possible for me to arrive or leave the station before 3.15pm . |
| 14 | but , but these fellas they come along and they have , they get in because of a policy |
| 15 | The first one may take a bit of time getting down but after that it |
| 16 | Perhaps it 's the moaning you can do at the top , or the relief of getting down and into the warmth . |
| 17 | You ’ — to the men in the second car — ‘ get up and down the road . |
| 18 | When my rheumatoid arthritis was very bad it has been very bad and very chronic , and it still can be some days , erm I had more ways of getting up and down those stairs and I got up and down , but I had to invent ways to do it . |
| 19 | Th you drive along a massive machine , probably doing more damage getting up and down the kerbs a and everything else . |
| 20 | It 's just when you get out and on road int it ? |
| 21 | Curtis said , ‘ We shall take longer getting back because of the drag , but it wo n't be so choppy with the wind behind us . |
| 22 | We used to feud about the oil-leaks which would drain down the side of the.little courtyard and get under and into my flower-pots . |
| 23 | He got out but before going to knock at the door , crossed the road and stood for a moment contemplating Ivy Cottage . |
| 24 | I used to take about , around about four , four to five gallons , which er , I could er , like erm , carry it down there like to them , you know and er , and then you got out Cos in the ori original days , when I first started as a kid with him , we used to have to take it out morning and night , people , mostly the factory owners and we , we had er , had er having twice a day . |
| 25 | But word got around and by 9am some 30 anglers had gathered in the Little Chef at Bath , prompting a sweepstake on the local Bristol Avon . |
| 26 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 27 | How many passengers is it envisaged will get on or off the trains at Stratford ? |
| 28 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 29 | There are no steps to get on and off the ‘ Mildred Stocks ’ ; wheelchairs can be wheeled straight on board on a special ramp and people with sticks or walking aids will have no problems . |
| 30 | I had n't asked him how he thought he was going to get in and for one terrible minute I thought he was going to shoot the lock and kick the door in . |