Example sentences of "get us [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A change in our fortunes at Kenilworth Road will soon get us up the table . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll get us both a fresh glass . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But first I 'll get us both some tea . ’ |
| 4 | . And you can he sure that nobody will get us away again from this place ! |
| 5 | ‘ You know , I have this feeling that too much introspection will get us nowhere . |
| 6 | Nor does it get us anywhere to learn from Anna Dostoevsky 's Memoirs that the story of the frantic Shatov , where phrasing seems inevitable and images unsought — it does n't help to be told by the novelist 's widow that these flawless pages lean heavily on his own behaviour while their first child was being born . |
| 7 | That would not get us anywhere and they are our customers , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Again , that does n't get us anywhere at the moment , but it does slightly bear out the possibility that the man was a foreigner which would explain our total failure so far to get him identified . " |
| 9 | O. Wilson doctrine that man is " a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon " will not get us anywhere at all . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't get us anywhere . |
| 11 | Lucy was apologetic : ‘ I know it does n't get us anywhere and it 's subjective , but I can only say what impression I got . ’ |
| 12 | We 'll protest , but whether it will get us anywhere I do n't know . |
| 13 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 14 | Tom said if I brought some mates , he 'd get us in . |
| 15 | Well , you said if I brought a couple of mates down you 'd get us in . |
| 16 | ‘ Could you get us in ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I can get us in , all right . ’ |
| 18 | Can you get us in ? ’ |
| 19 | I do n't think that he would get us too far in those questions . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by . |
| 21 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 22 | And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police ; Lenin 's Kulaks in the cattle trains , Devil 's Island , English prisons . |
| 23 | When Silver et al talked of ‘ securing the long term future of Leeds ’ I envisaged that as meaning we have to bite the bullet a little now , but once the ground has been finished — the revenue from the Euro champs will get us back on an even keel ( maybe into the black ) . |
| 24 | We should be able to see whether our plan is optimistic or pessimistic and it should then get us back to , it 'll ring bells . |
| 25 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 26 | The railway 's cheaper , and it 'll get us there just the same . ’ |
| 27 | It is a long way but I am sure the Lotus will get us there and back without any trouble . ’ |
| 28 | I could get us there you know ? |
| 29 | After the weekend I could get us there . |
| 30 | I 'll get us there , there for half past . |