Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Shortly after 04.00 on 25 April , 1,500 men of the first Anzac assault wave got safely ashore — at the wrong place . |
| 3 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A £48m. scheme to turn a derelict loop of the Tees into a huge water park got underway this week . |
| 6 | But when Which ? tested it in 1988 , the ‘ safety ’ stand got very hot in use and had no handle . |
| 7 | The problem here , as in the case of the atmosphere , was how the helium-3 got there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off . |
| 10 | ’ Wendy 's voice began to quaver , ‘ her breathing got very slow . |
| 11 | Erm and inspection got pretty sophisticated . |
| 12 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 13 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 14 | The following day his chest got considerably worse and this led to his hospitalization . |
| 15 | The biker and his bike got absolutely plastered in a green slimy substance . |
| 16 | My mum got home from work about 10.30 p.m. and asked if I was all right , but I told her that I thought it was a false alarm . |
| 17 | I do n't know how David 's Mum got there because he decided not to tell her , even though I said he could call her because it 's not really fair to get married without letting her know . ’ |
| 18 | If the actual delivery or the birth of the baby had been difficult , traumatic for example a forceps delivery or a very long labour , where the baby and the mum got very tired and exhausted If there 's any , if there 's any congenital amalgamation we can discuss it |
| 19 | The disproportionate hold it has on the psyche of white South Africa was evident as soon as the two-pronged Antipodean assault on the previously unconquered Springbok citadel got underway . |
| 20 | It certainly dried quicker but the oilskin got very hard and it was no time till it when you were walking . |
| 21 | When we have a when we were talking to them and we had the door through and my snooker got really good . |
| 22 | Trainer John Hills had high hopes of winning the Ebor with Castoret , but by the time the horse got clear the race was over . |
| 23 | The programme got underway with the Liberties Festival in Dublin and continues right through the summer , finishing with the Wexford Opera Festival and the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in October . |
| 24 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 25 | ‘ It looks like the London Underground got there first . ’ |
| 26 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 27 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 28 | The Wirral side got home by two wickets after Mark Warrington 's 5–32 helped dismiss Liverpool for 113 . |
| 29 | He was making these trips at the suggestion of Lucas , the engineer to the GS&W ; , who said that if the distress got much worse , the government could hardly resist appeals to include authorized railways in the list of acceptable public works . |
| 30 | In the 1980s the national governing bodies for canoeing and fishing got together ; they made some hopeful noises but nothing concrete has materialised in six years . |