Example sentences of "[noun pl] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while the ducks got so confident that they 'd come right into our garden and eventually into the house itself . |
| 2 | Wadkins got away with not the best of drives at the 18th but he had a gap , hit a five-iron to 45ft and then holed it across all sorts of slopes and burrows . |
| 3 | the rest of the production process was dependent upon this stage , but the operators got only intermittent feedback on the performance of the mixing process and were unable to effect control over it ; |
| 4 | His puffy breaths got even faster . |
| 5 | In the 1930s , they earned enough to make payments on their debentures and , usually , on their preference shares , though ordinary shareholders got very little . |
| 6 | You know the rules got more complex but in but in terms of actual processing power , the amount of look up required went down . |
| 7 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 8 | Fortunately , being so close to the bathroom , I was able to rinse out the plastic waste-basket he was forced to use whenever his cramps got too bad . |
| 9 | The few survivors got home via the friendly Greek state of Cyrene to the west . |
| 10 | The fourth point , Chairman , er is the new settlement issue , and while that 's due for discussion on policy H Two , that issue does shall I suggest invade policy H One , because an appropriate form of words has to be agreed in policy H One to reflect the new settlement issue and as you 'll be aware the County Council is about a step by step approach towards the finalization of the new settlement erm strategy for Greater York , and then finally , a specific issue that you mentioned is the distribution of developments between the Greater York districts er within Greater York , now as you 'll be aware Chairman , that has been done informally , following the original structure plan in nineteen eighty the County and the Districts got together and agreed the distribution of housing and employment land in Greater York . |
| 11 | now then the E E C said this should of happened so we , we got a petition up and I thought , we got , well I did n't but the lads got over two hundred signatures and they must of been er two letters went to the Corporation and everyone was talking er critical |
| 12 | The King makes all the rules , appoints and dismisses Prime Ministers , and insists on marshmallows and cocoa for breakfast , while his subjects get only dry toast . |
| 13 | It is excellent for skiing since lateral jumping movements can be used , the calves get well stretched and you also develop posture , balance and co-ordination . |
| 14 | Most New Zealand rugs get quite a hammering ’ |
| 15 | Of course , satellite dish homes get more than four channels , and those with cable get dozens . |
| 16 | My hips go , my knees get too sore , my back stiffens up and I ca n't bend . |
| 17 | From Nemo through Krazy Kat , Dare , The Fantastic Four , The Bash Street Kids , If to Luther Arkwright , Swamp Thing and Trypto the Acid Dog it goes , the images getting more bizarre with the years , not to mention gloomier . |
| 18 | As mentioned elsewhere the specific design of transition methods gets too little attention . |
| 19 | As the crack gets longer , the tip radius remaining the same , the stress concentrations get more severe but the pattern and proportions remain similar . |
| 20 | In this case the animals get quite a good deal , but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth . |
| 21 | Generally , speaking , as brainstorming sessions get underway the ideas start to flow and one person 's good idea stimulates another person 's thoughts . |
| 22 | In the construction industry , red tape , along with the endemic bribery so sharply illustrated by the recent Sagawa Kyubin scandal , means that foreigners get virtually no contracts : last year Americans got 0.02% of them . |
| 23 | Police warning as conmen get away with cash card |
| 24 | A sentence or two later — and unfortunately all the evidence suggests that few readers get that far — they would have been informed that the hitherto obscure ‘ Cosmic Background Explorer ’ satellite , known to astronomical aficionados as ‘ Cobe ’ , had discovered mysterious ripples in the equally mysterious cosmic microwave background radiation . |
| 25 | Thus with respect to solar time , the tides get later each day . |
| 26 | His lyrical images get more convoluted by ‘ Bizarro ’ , with the exception of ‘ Brassneck ’ . |
| 27 | The Aquarium also has an attractive bar/lounge with colour TV and video , where Club clients get together for regular party nights . |
| 28 | And beneath , the copy-writers had reared a paradox that would have delighted Lewis Carroll : ‘ The family with two cars gets twice as many chores completed , so there 's more leisure to enjoy together ! ’ |
| 29 | But if your eyes get really sore put a cold , damp , used tea-bag on each eyelid for five minutes two or three times a day . |
| 30 | ( Scots get very querulous if you 're not the person they thought they were ringing . ) |