Example sentences of "had get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Billy was running with the speed of an arrow , but each time he glanced back over his shoulder the puffs of orange-red smoky-breath had gotten closer . |
| 2 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 3 | I just believed for awhile that the dream had gotten away from me … |
| 4 | Back in the waiting room it had gotten twice as crowded . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Ted Parsons had got ashore , but when lying rock-still he felt a gun behind his ear and was captured . |
| 7 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 8 | And I became conscious that , alongside a genuine pleasure that he had been released , there was also a resentment that he had got away with it . |
| 9 | He wanted someone who had got away with it . |
| 10 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 11 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 12 | Through her mother 's staunch and indulgent love ( plus the fibbing extravagances of her wonderful imagination ) , but mainly because of Anwar 's indifference , Jamila had got away with things some of her white counterparts would n't dream of . |
| 13 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 14 | It appeared as though they had got away with it . |
| 15 | He had a few convictions for petty crimes when he was out of work but had got away with fines in the past . |
| 16 | In a Mirror exclusive headlined ‘ How Pakistan Cheat At Cricket ’ , Lamb said the tourists had got away with murder all summer . |
| 17 | He had got away with it ! |
| 18 | He had got away . |
| 19 | Except , I thought , now some vultures had learned about it , and had got away with some . |
| 20 | I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " . |
| 21 | Perhaps she was the only one who had got away ? |
| 22 | Moore 's the guilty player Jochim had got away from him and unless the referee decides that there was another defender coming round on the cover there Moores could be in big trouble . |
| 23 | I thought we had got away from the ‘ Where 's Chapman 's head ? |
| 24 | The walk-in had got steadily worse as the altitude began to tell , but all that now lay behind us . |
| 25 | It crossed Luce 's mind that , though he might be thwarted sexually , he sounded like a man who had got exactly what he wanted . |
| 26 | Calvinists had got no nearer to the truth about life than the Pope . |
| 27 | And in this last week , ever since she had started the job properly , it had got even easier . |
| 28 | I nodded a yeah-they-don't-know-shit nod and something small and mean inside me felt it had got even . |
| 29 | By 1971 hair had got even longer and was now down to the collar . |
| 30 | Things had got even worse on the voluntary side , for without subscriptions to collect or canvassing to do , the whole basis of the voluntary party had gone . |