Example sentences of "but get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim , seated , or perched on his chair , could not settle , but got up and stumbled about , laughing helplessly , or sat and laid his head on the table and laughed , sounding as if he wept , then in an excess of happiness and gratitude , banged his two fists on either side of his head , which banging turned into a little sharp jubilant rhythm . |
| 2 | She still said nothing , but got up to make the tea . |
| 3 | ‘ My husband collapsed on the lawn outside , but got up again to try and save our dogs from the side of the house . ’ |
| 4 | Grove , a 15-1 longshot , was dropped to the canvas in the first round by a crunching left hook but got up , and danced and jabbed his way to the distance against the hard-hitting Nelson . |
| 5 | As for Irina , Franca could not , and did not try to , make her out , but got on with her perfectly well . |
| 6 | The other two aircraft had been damaged but got off with bullet holes only . ’ |
| 7 | He was caught in the act but got off with a caution . |
| 8 | She hesitated — remembering something ? — but got in . |
| 9 | But got back with tired crews and tired passenger . |
| 10 | Keith Pringle and his girlfriend Leanne Rees had repeatedly split up but got back together after discovering they could n't live apart . |
| 11 | The couple , who have a baby daughter , had split up but got back together . |
| 12 | Woman-centred feminists like Daly ( 1979 ) do not bother with such defensive explanations , but get on with building a female language . |
| 13 | We said we do n't know where the train is but get on when we do and you 'll be alright . |
| 14 | • If you feel tired when it is time to get up — indeed , you might just be getting off to sleep ! — do not stay in bed , but get up . |
| 15 | You demonstrate to me your awareness of the fact that water is boiling hot by pouring it over tea-leaves , your sensuous awareness of the heat of the bathwater by preferring to linger long after you are clean but get out when it turns cold . |
| 16 | But get out of the way and let me turn him in if you 're not goin' to lead him . ’ |
| 17 | But get out the Union Jack and wave it frantically — there are some real gems now being released by UK companies Kosmos , School Software of Ireland , Europress ( with their latest Fun School products , Paint&Create , and Spelling Fair ) and from the Scottish software house , Lander . |
| 18 | Do n't just look for a job in jobcentres ’ — after all , the Government have closed down most of them — ’ but get out and actively look for temporary work elsewhere . ’ |
| 19 | They 're still big , still noisy , but getting on in years and with a diminishing role thanks to the peace dividend . |
| 20 | It paid £400,000 upfront for Weigang ( CI No 1,671 ) , but getting out will cost rather more : it retains £2.3m of bank and trade liabilities but will be relieved of other trade liabilities of £1m — but grants Seitz a £208,000 interest-free loan repayable in 18 months . |
| 21 | But getting out too quickly is also a danger . |
| 22 | But getting out to MPs like erm John Prescott the energy spokesperson for the Labour Party and so on . |
| 23 | ‘ But getting back to your question , what I really wanted from this album was for anyone who hears it to say they like it or they do n't like it , but that it 's pure Steve Harley . ’ |
| 24 | But getting back to The Case is Altered : I supposed that if the people got browned off , as we call it , they 'd have a settin' in . |
| 25 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 26 | General Remarks — Does his work very steadily ; backward in languages , but gets on . |
| 27 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 28 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 29 | but to get in to clean it out |
| 30 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |