Example sentences of "and get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talbot reached for a phone and got through to Van Gelder . |
| 2 | I put the coffee down , leapt out of my chair and over the couch , ran to the phone , and got through , ten minutes later , to the station . |
| 3 | ‘ I had the full 90 minutes against Everton a week ago and got through okay . |
| 4 | Er , there may be one there may have been one that failed , I 'm not sure but they probably did a resit and got through in September . |
| 5 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 6 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 7 | They were sage young people and got on with Christopher . |
| 8 | I pretended not to notice her look of astonishment and got on with my shining . |
| 9 | For the rest of the time , we talked only of natural history and local gossip , and got on very well . |
| 10 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 11 | That was all right then , April thought , and got on again with her pastry rolling . |
| 12 | They tried to communicate and got on very well , despite the language difficulties . |
| 13 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 14 | We therefore assumed that he knew what he was doing , and got on with our work as well . |
| 15 | In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job . |
| 16 | She was glad to see her friends , naturally , and she loved the cottage , and got on quite well with Susan ; but at first she was completely baffled by the simple yet busy life they led . |
| 17 | Paul became a frequent visitor at Marcelle 's house and got on famously with her five grown-up children . |
| 18 | There was one small group though who went through to the store area at the back of the hut and got on with something really quietly . |
| 19 | I took this bass out on a gig and got on very well with it . |
| 20 | And Graham acknowledged : ‘ He accepted what was said , and got on with the job . |
| 21 | He loved his home in Ireland and got on with the people . |
| 22 | This huge bull just walked up and got on with it . ’ |
| 23 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 26 | Ex-US Army paramedic Matthew Brafman , 33 , had ‘ a reasonable bedside manner ’ and got on well with the patients at the geriatric hospital where he worked . |
| 27 | Having blown his lunch , he then strolled back on set and got on with the matter in hand . |
| 28 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 29 | I did the minimum of work academically and got on with my sport — at first soccer — and they never bothered me . ’ |
| 30 | HE CHATTED to his old acquaintance Al Gore , and got on famously with Bill Clinton ; and as Chris Patten , the governor of Hong Kong , left Washington , officials lined up to say what a fine fellow he was . |