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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over
2 He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look .
3 In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground .
4 We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word .
5 I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism .
6 He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood .
7 As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth .
8 He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor .
9 ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table .
10 He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table .
11 He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table .
12 He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there .
13 When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty .
14 He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing .
15 ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet .
16 ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source .
17 He got through to the base camp to find out when the chap was coming to fix it .
18 yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job
19 He got on with the job .
20 He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount .
21 He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night .
22 But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ .
23 He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played .
24 He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain .
25 I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot .
26 There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep .
27 He got down from the cab .
28 He got down from the wall and walked on .
29 He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary .
30 Completed shortly after he got out of the university , Nice Work retreated from academe to the extent of featuring a central character — Vic Wilcox , a dour Midlands MD — who , almost uniquely among his fictional creations , would not have read the novels of David Lodge .
  Next page