Example sentences of "they get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they got nearer they could see it was some-one , head and shoulders clearly visible . |
| 2 | " That 's Maurice 's pub , " she told him , " he 'll be in there now " , and , as they got nearer , " I wish the Venice lantern was still there , it looked nice at night , " but in reality there was no need to say very much . |
| 3 | The country was green and flat and featureless as they got nearer Hackballs Cross , with high hedges and few signs of human habitation . |
| 4 | And yet , I 'm quite sure that as they got nearer and nearer to Bethlehem their feelings would have changed a little bit . |
| 5 | As they got closer , they saw it was rising from a burning truck . |
| 6 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 7 | As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression . |
| 8 | Americans had more nature than anything else except money , and they got pretty excited about that too . |
| 9 | They got away on time . |
| 10 | Eventually they got away , but they had got hardly a hundred yards down the road when she suddenly screamed out , ‘ We 've left them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid they got away , ’ I said . |
| 12 | You had to know your Instruction Book very well , because if you locked someone up and they got away with it , next day in court , there was a chance that you might be deemed excessive in your law and of course then you were on your own . |
| 13 | ‘ I think they got away in another truck , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 15 | ‘ There were arms everywhere , pulling him back and tugging at his shirt , and they got away with it just about every time . ’ |
| 16 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 17 | They got away with it — that day and three more days in a row : each afternoon when she heard his whistle she stole out and crouched in the grassy fosse beneath the wall . |
| 18 | Nevertheless they did , and they got away with it . |
| 19 | There was still much danger : the palace was heavily guarded , and even if they got away King Minos had many warships which could chase and sink them . |
| 20 | Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year . |
| 21 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 22 | They got away earlier than usual , and the river is suitable for a fairly fast run . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 24 | It was nearer two hours than one before they got away . |
| 25 | In the end , they got away with one pit stop to tighten a loose nut on the adjustable skates . |
| 26 | They got away with cigarettes valued at £200 . |
| 27 | They got away with only two statues and left the rest . |
| 28 | And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries . |
| 29 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 30 | I said , but other people let it go wrong and they got away with it . |