Example sentences of "[conj] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two months , Joy 's enjoyment of tricking the customers was decreasing , there was still no difference and the customers were just as rude or getting even worse , for more ‘ skinnys ’ were arriving and ordering more food . |
| 2 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 3 | It really is not there 's nothing worse in life than getting to old age , or getting anywhere with no money . |
| 4 | The rest are too busy worrying about holding on to what they have or getting more . ’ |
| 5 | At night we gather in the bar before hitting the nightspots of Lloret 's West End , or getting together with the other hotels for a party or disco night . |
| 6 | When your world falls apart , do you get mad , get out or get even ? |
| 7 | Wise counsel for some , because coping with his affair is easier , in the short term , when you 're naturally driven to get mad , get out or get even . |
| 8 | Otherwise you might be desperate to get awa to do something , or get away on holiday , but you 're still waiting for that big win . |
| 9 | Although recent advice to mothers warning them not to allow babies to sleep on their stomachs or get too warm has helped considerably , health experts said there is no single answer . |
| 10 | ‘ If boats use sonar or get too close , it is likely to panic the whales and cause them to scatter , and if a whale weighing over 40 tonnes becomes totally disorientated and charges off in any direction , anything could happen . |
| 11 | If you want to be anyone or get anywhere , you 've got to go for it here . ’ |
| 12 | People with HC may be clumsy , or fall over a lot , or get very fidgety . |
| 13 | Do n't clench your fists tensely , or get so enthusiastic about what you are saying that you wave your arms about and knock over the wine . |
| 14 | Sub-text : ‘ I 'm not making myself vulnerable , I do n't want to deal with the unpredictable or get close to you . ’ |
| 15 | Not many users of PageMaker or Ventura or Quark need or get that much sophistication . |
| 16 | Many of us find it difficult to have faith and trust and feel love for someone that we can not see and often feel that we can not hear or get close to . |
| 17 | I guess he 's just what Big Jack needs , a full-back who 'll try & get forward , and if they qualify we could see a few Leeds players in the USA even if without England and Scotland . |
| 18 | Do you have a formal qualification in electronics , or was it an interest that got slightly out of hand ? |
| 19 | ‘ When I wrote it , ’ he remembers , staring at the floor like a child admitting to shoplifting , ‘ I was in the middle of a really , really serious obsession that got completely out of hand . |
| 20 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 21 | Privatisation that got away shows how to share the corporate bounty Outlook . |
| 22 | NFC stands as a monument to the irrelevance of both nationalisation and denationalisation ; and as a monument to the vision of Sir Peter Thompson and his colleagues whose commitment to employee involvement has made the transport group , which was floated in February , the one privatisation that got away . |
| 23 | Fluke 's ‘ Joni ’ , a furious homage to Joni Mitchell 's ‘ Big Yellow Taxi ’ , was one of the dance singles that got away last summer . |
| 24 | The only German prisoner ever to escape from Britain , described in the book The One that Got Away , made his first attempt from Fetherstone . |
| 25 | In the evening , before a roaring open fire , we read ; and talked endlessly about the ones that got away , and the few that did n't . |
| 26 | Anglers like to talk of ‘ the one that got away ’ , but at least they occasionally bag a fish to flesh out their claims . |
| 27 | PATRICK DOBBS ON A HOBBY THAT GOT AWAY |
| 28 | Some may have a thought , even a regret , for the ones that got away — those they might have married but now will not . |
| 29 | Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away . |
| 30 | One that got away |