Example sentences of "[subord] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now , that seemed almost more important than getting away from Julius . |
| 2 | Unbeaten Rangers are the surprise Premier pacemakers , and manager Gerry Francis admitted : ‘ Staying at the top will be a lot more difficult than getting there . |
| 3 | Full of expectations , the travelling is more fun than getting there . |
| 4 | by the time she comes , because to get there she 's got ta come , so that , she can get me there |
| 5 | Mr. Luff retired in 1954 , but the Marton route continued undisturbed for the rest of the decade , while getting increasingly uneconomic . |
| 6 | Whereas most modern performance cars encourage aggression through their virulence , the Stag suppresses it while getting there just as quickly . |
| 7 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |
| 8 | Charles and Alex drank a lot , but Charles did n't feel the relaxation he normally experienced when getting quietly pissed with a fellow actor . |
| 9 | This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round . |
| 10 | This swimming is a type of orientation , negative chemotaxis in response to the salt as getting too near the salt would result in dehydration of the paramecium . |
| 11 | I should be so lucky as to get that close . |