Example sentences of "i get [adv prt] " in BNC.

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31 I got up and quietly bolted the door .
32 After a bit I got up and — I went back .
33 It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site .
34 When I got up next morning , I said to her , ‘ Are you still proud of me ? ’
35 I got up and , sitting at my window , looked out over the still-sleeping city , and wrote my first poem to this unknown god :
36 ‘ It was very dark when I got up today , ’ I began , trying to speak distinctly but without raising my voice .
37 I got up and made coffee .
38 I got up feeling encouraged and thoroughly supporting her strong positive vision of Europe 's future .
39 It began with a dream I had just before I got up .
40 I got up and raced after them .
41 ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony .
42 Half an hour later , unable to sleep , I got up again .
43 When I got up , Mick was fiddling with his radio on the Land Rover bonnet .
44 I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness .
45 ‘ This is me since I got up , ’ she said .
46 I got up about seven , had a little breakfast and went to catch the bus for Fulham .
47 Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box .
48 I got up and dressed quickly and as quietly as I could , but Colin was awake and he mumbled a ‘ good luck ’ as I headed for the door .
49 Some time later I got up to go to the loo .
50 I got up and ran after him .
51 I got up , and went , and he did n't follow me .
52 I got up and shouted , ‘ What — ?
53 I got up and sprinted the 150 yards or so .
54 I got up nimbly , came round to where he stood , and faced him . ’
55 As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income .
56 I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’
57 I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me .
58 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
59 I got up and he knocked me down again .
60 I got up as usual at seven o'clock to make Dad his cup of tea and his bread and cheese for dinner .
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