Example sentences of "[vb past] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then somehow we did get romantically linked up and some people , right near the end of the situation with that band , singled us out as potentially more interesting than the band , which I suppose was a cruel situation really . |
| 2 | But things did get eventually get better . |
| 3 | Andy and I never did get properly told off for what happened , and he hardly ever mentioned that day to me unless he had to . |
| 4 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 5 | But I did get away with it a couple of times on this record . |
| 6 | But er apparently , er this train whilst it was halted , it was halted locally , but after a while it er it er it did get away , and it proceeded towards er towards er Sheffield . |
| 7 | Hammam is on the board for Wimbledon ( director me thinks ) and he himself was ‘ brought to court ’ ( FA ) because he had sprayed some bad words in the away teams wardrobe before/after/during a game against Everton ( ? ) — do n't remember the details — but a high official in a club doing this should be sacked in my book : even worse i think he did get away with it — a small fee or something but nothing serious . |
| 8 | Or at least tell him how to get there , or give him the money to get in when he did get there , or at least lend him a map with a cross marked on it , or give him an address . |
| 9 | He did get there , I take it ? ’ |
| 10 | We did get damn poor , you know . |
| 11 | But all day he would n't talk to me , and I must admit , I did get quite a few looks and remarks from boys there . |
| 12 | Though I did get close to it once . ’ |
| 13 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 14 | Off he went ; he must have persuaded my mother because when I eventually did get home , she did n't put up any resistance . |
| 15 | Yet when they did get home their families remarked how much more outgoing they had become . |
| 16 | But she was usually annoyed when she did get home . |
| 17 | I did get that much out of him . |
| 18 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 19 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 20 | But we did get terribly tired . |
| 21 | Anyway we did get about ten year old we did go . |