Example sentences of "[vb past] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used get as much as he could of them , I do n't know was it to keep the the amount of them down or not . |
| 2 | I listened as the young man tried to get away — telling the wino he did n't have any money . |
| 3 | Some people complained that the realistic sobbing of the Beast , slumped on the ground at the ballet 's opening and again when Beauty hurls the rose back at him , was out of place in a ballet , but it conveyed the point without needing any artificial mime — something he always tried to get away from , wanting anyone to be able to understand his work without needing to learn the conventions first . |
| 4 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 6 | Already the Tans were running towards him , guns being waved menacingly in case he tried to get away . |
| 7 | The Humans were sitting a little way off ; Balor would hear them if they tried to get away . |
| 8 | The fact that I tried to get away from you — presented you with an unaccustomed challenge ? ’ |
| 9 | She stiffened in his arms , tried to get away . |
| 10 | She jack-knifed up , tried to get away . |
| 11 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 12 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 13 | tried to get away |
| 14 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 15 | I tried to get closer to them . |
| 16 | Anne tried to get past . |
| 17 | Even more unfortunately , the study door was open , and as she tried to get past without being seen Phena stormed out . |
| 18 | Mark said : ‘ I kicked the front door in and tried to get upstairs , but was beaten back by the smoke . |
| 19 | Governors generally tried to get as much support as possible from the Legislative Council , and they usually succeeded . |
| 20 | What really interested him , and what he tried to get across in lectures and in learned tomes , were the unities of plan , the homologies , to be found in the animal kingdom . |
| 21 | When a scuffle broke out , Saville moved to get away out of the way and fell awkwardly . ’ |
| 22 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 23 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 24 | He 'd got just tuppence ha'penny in his pocket for his beer , when they found him . ’ |
| 25 | God knows what would have happened if he 'd got upstairs . ’ |
| 26 | Bus dri bus driver nearly we nearly hit the the thing nearly keeled over cos he did n't realize how many he 'd got upstairs and he went round the bend and it started to go . |
| 27 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 28 | The front door was still locked and bolted — I 'd only used the back one since I 'd got here — and the keys were out the back , so I came in here to open these french windows . |
| 29 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 30 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |