Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] get " in BNC.

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1 When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections .
2 Patients are so grateful to get treated they do not complain or get taken seriously .
3 A crowd then assembled and threw pepper at the police , causing such a commotion that it was only possible to get the one-legged prisoner to the police station with the assistance of twelve constables .
4 Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects .
5 obviously preferable to get evidence given about the documentation which is why I advise , consider it necessary for your Lordship to familiarise yourself with it now .
6 And as Chancellor , if not as Transport Secretary , he might be sufficiently prominent to get that invitation to Desert Island Discs and have the Shotts Pipe Band playing over the airwaves .
7 The party was greatly relieved to get the whole business over and done with .
8 For the Ego , it is highly dangerous to get too close to anyone .
9 League vice president Gifford McConkey said : ‘ We are extremely fortunate to get these two teams to Belfast after such a hectic season .
10 One review summed it up saying how we were ‘ classes better in every outfield position ’ , City were extremely fortunate to get a goal , let alone a point .
11 Well anybody that we gave it to , they would be highly delighted to get it .
12 Sometimes she went to sleep in class because she got up so early to get everything done .
13 It is , obviously , extremely easy to get stereotyped in layout : it is the art director 's job to avoid this , without doing excessive damage to the way the reader will want to take in the ad .
14 SO EASY TO GET
15 ‘ It 's so easy to get frustrated on this course , ’ he said .
16 ‘ Of course , if you get married now , ’ Aunt Lilian said , ‘ you may not find it so easy to get into politics . ’
17 But it was not now so easy to get rid of Anselm : he refused either to comply with Henry 's demand or leave the country , and for the next few weeks he lived quietly on his manors .
18 So Easy to Get There
19 But it was not so easy to get rid of the cosmological constant .
20 Why carry stock when trains run so often and it has been made so easy to get goods ?
21 ‘ He wo n't find it so easy to get another wife , ’ she said to Owen .
22 I should think it was about ten , fifteen years later , and it was so easy to get into the country .
23 You will not find it quite so easy to get round me . ’
24 No do n't I do n't I , I just get , I mean I , sometimes I have some like but it 's so easy to get hold of it out there mum .
25 Cos he 's quite good in a , but it 's so easy to get wrapped up with , obviously at that age it 's very impressionable and very like they , they must look so big to a lot of people that they go out
26 The spokesman for the Liberal Democrats will probably agree that to go into further detail could make it less easy to get the type of consensus that we want .
27 As a professional carver I thought it only natural to get my hands on one of those new Arbortech Woodcarvers to add to my compendium of tools last year .
28 ‘ He was extremely lucky to get away with it , ’ he said .
29 ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘
30 Have I remembered to do that ? ) sometimes kindly people try so hard to get their message across that one would think that they were talking to a mentally backward five-year-old !
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