Example sentences of "was [adj] to get [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as it was possible to get out of Sleightholmedale , he wrote to Tamar to tell her that their Uncle George 's condition was worsening rapidly . |
| 2 | Léonie was delighted to get out of the house . |
| 3 | I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it . |
| 4 | Bet you was glad to get out of road were you ? |
| 5 | Really I reckon there 's something wrong , convinced of it , oh it runs alright once it 's moving it 's just such an awkward driver that 's all I was glad to get out of the thing I was did knock the bloody er whatsit down , buses knock the er |
| 6 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 7 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 8 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 9 | He was anxious to get out of the basement and back upstairs . |