Example sentences of "[adj] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Smith was now committed to clobbering the poor by reversing their tax cut as soon as Labour got in . |
| 2 | The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment . |
| 3 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 4 | The British got there in their usual resourceful way . |
| 5 | Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing . |
| 6 | Erm I do n't know the figures , but the feeling certainly was that everybody wanted to get out , and thy wanted to get out as quickly as they could . |
| 7 | And God 's blessings came to Ruth only as she was willing to get out and do something . |
| 8 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 9 | But she sat , afraid to get out and face some possible disappointment . |
| 10 | Possibly the most trouble-free and profitable course in the first year is to grass-let part of the farm , on your own terms , thereby keeping the farm in work whilst leaving you free to get on with your development plans . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression . |
| 12 | In this way the haulier spends as little time as possible on the matter and is free to get on with what he does best — haulage . |
| 13 | He leaves me free to get on with it and I like that . |
| 14 | Beneath this is a system which takes charge of managing computing parameters , leaving each application free to get on with its job . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you are free to get on with your lives , ’ Ruth told him quietly . |
| 16 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 17 | percentage of a fixed got there . |
| 18 | Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive . |
| 19 | Mouthing dialogue in mime is an easy get out ! |
| 20 | and erm but erm even so getting to and from the bus was a bit of a problem , unfortunately I 've never had erm been one of these people who have got the nerve to erm go about a great deal by themselves and erm being up in London you know , immediately before the war I had erm , it was n't very easy getting about so erm and erm I was n't very |
| 21 | For the Ego , it is highly dangerous to get too close to anyone . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 23 | In a running-down case it is quite simple to get round this problem . |
| 24 | But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home . |
| 25 | Obviously I can go to the US or China to see mining practices there if I choose to , but it 's not easy to get away . |
| 26 | Hugh was nearest to her , and if she arranged to be on the side of his wounded arm she thought it would be easy to get away . |
| 27 | It was ridiculously easy to get away and her own skill brought a grin to her face . |
| 28 | It is not always easy to get up to date information on which to set the quotas , especially in a small area sample . |
| 29 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 30 | Yes , the body was spotted by one of our patrol boats , but it was low tide , you see , and not easy to get ashore from a boat just then . |