Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bones and Whizzo stayed where they were , too tired to move , but the spotty mare got up . |
| 2 | The snorting grew louder , and as the brute got more and more excited by the nearness of the delicious Little Billy smell , the smoke began coming out faster and faster , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph , whoomph-whoomph . |
| 3 | Shortly after 04.00 on 25 April , 1,500 men of the first Anzac assault wave got safely ashore — at the wrong place . |
| 4 | The story got back to England , as a result of which Lake was court- martialled and dismissed the Navy . |
| 5 | The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure . |
| 6 | It would be a pity if this story got about , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 7 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 8 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 9 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 10 | Green Realignment 's independent existence got off to an uncertain start when one of the six members of its steering group , Lou Betts , announced that he had decided to rejoin the Green Party . |
| 11 | The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies . |
| 12 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 13 | ‘ When the woman driver got out of the car she went to intervene between the two men . |
| 14 | But neither the princess nor the police driver got out to inspect the damage . |
| 15 | The driver got out grinning sheepishly-but not for long . |
| 16 | The driver got out of the car . |
| 17 | A £48m. scheme to turn a derelict loop of the Tees into a huge water park got underway this week . |
| 18 | But when Which ? tested it in 1988 , the ‘ safety ’ stand got very hot in use and had no handle . |
| 19 | But the pensioner got up and fought back , police said . |
| 20 | The problem here , as in the case of the atmosphere , was how the helium-3 got there . |
| 21 | The a mini drew up and a young woman in a mini-skirt got out . |
| 22 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 23 | According to producer John Mair 's extremely detailed investigation , British Rail got hopelessly out of their depth when they escalated Red Star from a simple station-to-station service to home delivery , and then to an international operation . |
| 24 | Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off . |
| 25 | A snipe got up . |
| 26 | ’ Wendy 's voice began to quaver , ‘ her breathing got very slow . |
| 27 | The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career . |
| 28 | One night the wind turned wild and a great storm got up . |
| 29 | Had he been so certain then he would n't still be guarding her name so zealously lest any whisper of their attachment got out and so caused Rosemary to decide never to see him again . |
| 30 | Erm and inspection got pretty sophisticated . |