Example sentences of "[adv] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few days Maggie slowly got closer to Ana de Santis . |
| 2 | The resurrection of the coal industry slowly got underway . |
| 3 | However , outwardly cool , calm and composed , and trying to use up as many minutes as possible , she slowly got out of her car and , just as slowly , moved to the stout front door of the imposing building . |
| 4 | Karen instinctively got up to try and help , which made the punt wobble even more wildly . |
| 5 | Allan Lamb duly got there , but Joel Garner produced the perfect yorker to end the innings . |
| 6 | This left West Indies to make 93 , and early on the fifth morning they duly got there , having lost three wickets to Emburey and Edmonds , both of whom bowled well throughout . |
| 7 | Although Home Rule for Scotland in a federated Britain was part of that policy , it rarely got seriously discussed . |
| 8 | Jack eventually got up just before dawn , and went to the window . |
| 9 | By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober . |
| 10 | When I eventually got downstairs she said to my Dad , ‘ Tell him his breakfast 's in the oven if he wants it . ’ |
| 11 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 12 | So I phoned Mrs I eventually got through to her then I had to phone the prison to tell daddy because he was going to go in and erm I mean I , and then I go back to work , Grant . |
| 13 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 14 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 15 | And so I went there and they er I eventually got on . |
| 16 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 17 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 18 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 19 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 20 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 21 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 22 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 23 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 24 | We eventually got back to our campsite at around 5.00pm . |
| 25 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 26 | When Katrine eventually got in she found her friend in a state of physical and mental collapse . |
| 27 | ‘ I only got away by throwing hen feed at the sheep to distract them . ’ |
| 28 | He only got away with money in one of the raids . |
| 29 | ‘ We only got here three days ago . ’ |
| 30 | I only got here last night . |