Example sentences of "[verb] get [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Next Computer Inc , which has been through a tidy sum already , has gotten further financing : this time a $55m credit line from Canon Inc and another $10m from Steve Jobs himself — both are former investors already . |
2 | ‘ This place has got distinctly chilly in the last couple of minutes . ’ |
3 | True enough , the preparatory process leading up to the summit has got badly bogged down , and the number of logjams to be cleared between now and June will keep the UNCED secretariat in hectic action 24 hours a day , seven days a week . |
4 | Unemployment fell due to agrarian reform from about 32 per cent in 1979 to 20 per cent in 1980 and unionisation has got well underway ( Petras 1981 ) . |
5 | This one has got just about every secondary school in Oxford , county secondary school on it , so it 's just where the schools are really . |
6 | ‘ With the ZX Turbo Diesel , the best diesel car has got even better , ’ he boasts . |
7 | The case for urgent reforms has got nowhere in Congress . |
8 | She said : ‘ He has got away with less than two years in prison . |
9 | Mrs Child , 43 , of Wakefield , said : ‘ Nicola has lost 75 per cent of her sight in the eye and he has got away with it . |
10 | ‘ I 'm not sure how he has got away with it . |
11 | But you 're right , time has got away from me . |
12 | ‘ He 's special , Master Venables , because he 's a murderer , a felon who has stolen over two hundred pounds of his master 's monies , and it looks as if he has got away scot free ! ’ |
13 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
14 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
15 | I gave him Robert 's ( old , unfortunately ) , address ; I do n't know if contact has been made , or if Charley has got somewhere to stay . |
16 | Mr Milburn said he had spoken to an 81-year-old lady from Harrowgate Hill who has got steadily more blind while waiting two years for treatment for cataracts . |
17 | Lately it has got completely out of hand . |
18 | As their fascination for the appalling , arbitrary and marred has got more religious , so their sound has begun its ascent into the cosmos . |
19 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |
20 | It has a mass of flowers in August but has got very straggly . |
21 | On occasions larger pieces fall from the table , but given the vast size of the investment cake , the East End has got very little . |
22 | ‘ My dad has got very spiky hair and glasses and his face looks like mine , but he still has all his teeth . |
23 | That 's why one difference for example , is that the feminist movement in Europe has got very weak ties to the political movement . |
24 | There are two professors in the English department where I work , and in the last twelve months , one of them has got very keen on structuralism . |
25 | Now in those cases we ca n't use the normal Chow tests we 've got more parameters to estimate than we have observations , right , as a result Chow developed a second test , right , from structural change where we do n't need er erm to estimate essentially the regression in the sub sample which has got very few obser observations but in that Chow , that Chow second test is often called a test of predicted failure , right , Microfit will calculate both of those tests and bear in mind I mean that we 're spending a lot of time on er parameter constancy , we must bear in mind that parameter constancy is vitally important if we are going to make these inferences possible be about policy making on the basis of our estimates . |
26 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
27 | The grass has got very long has n't it ? |
28 | voice has got very low lately |
29 | Now the other side , the hyperglycaemia that is too much sugar , now whatever one it is , if you do n't know the difference , the treatment is the same , you will give sugar even though this person has got too much , but this one comes on very slowly and quite honestly the person should realize themselves it 's so slow . |
30 | But life has got too complicated to understand : the vote is no longer sufficient protection for the working man . |