Example sentences of "[noun prp] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 2 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 3 | Before Shildon got very far with his answer the doorbell rang again . |
| 4 | Ben got away to a really fast start and there was no heading him . |
| 5 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 6 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 7 | Wavertree got home by two wickets in a high scoring clash at second placed Sutton , Kelvin Alleyne hitting 91no , Grant Webster ( 4–90 ) . |
| 8 | So much so that Jan got quite giggly and started swapping bargain stories with him , and I was left with Darren . |
| 9 | She knocked off at half-past four when Nutty got home , and spent two hours in the bathroom getting herself ready to go out , which she did every night of the week . |
| 10 | So , when a group of setts near Brighton was to be partly destroyed by a new road , Dr Tim Roper and colleagues David Fee and Sean Christian at the University of Sussex got together with Dr Alex Tait of East Sussex County Council to carry out a ‘ rescue excavation ’ . |
| 11 | Allan got away to the best start and led for the opening thirty metres ( the commentators were going berserk ! ) . |
| 12 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 13 | Ferguson got closest last season , his team finally running out of steam at , of all places , Liverpool . |
| 14 | Lawson got most fun watching Schwantz laying rubber wrestling his evil Suzuki |
| 15 | Consequently Courtney got away with most of his crimes and even when he was brought to trial he was sentenced to a mere seven years in prison . |
| 16 | It is worth asking how Courtney got away with such an inadequate sentence . |
| 17 | As Mazur got closer to the big players in the Colombian drug world , one name began to come up more and more often : that of BCCI . |
| 18 | Miss Hazelwood got rather annoyed if a page was badly blotted . |
| 19 | ‘ They left jus ' before Nellie got 'ere . |
| 20 | When Donnington got home in that ridiculous Home Guard uniform of his and her daughter had torn herself away from those men , then all hell would break loose . |
| 21 | If Mola got there first , not only would he snatch that honour from him , but it might also mean the end of the war and his return to the relative anonymity of normal army routine . |
| 22 | They told Teena not to worry and they would return that night when Sams got home . ’ |
| 23 | Vivienne got really angry . |
| 24 | I was the person who was supposed to go to every city before David got there to make sure that everything was in order , that the hall that was going to be performed in had all the facilities that were required — and the hotels — I had to check all of that . |
| 25 | Had Becky got there before him , he wondered , even if she were only living in digs ? |
| 26 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 27 | Anyway , it was a lawyer named Michael Lipman who engineered David getting away from Tony DeFries . ’ |
| 28 | Everyone knows that if this time round , there is political instability , it may be a long time before Pakistan gets yet another chance at election . |
| 29 | In Europe , only French President Francois Mitterrand gets anywhere near to the status of political giant . |
| 30 | But , somehow , Howey gets away with it . |