Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one crowded meeting a British soldier got up and said , ‘ Why is it that you Burmese are always talking about independence and self-government ? |
| 2 | With a soft top , yeah the easiest thing to do is just get a knife , stick it in and slit it and you 've got a little hole to get in . |
| 3 | But , realising that it was n't very good manners to sit there bemoaning her lot , she made a huge attempt to get over her disappointment , and trotted out lightly , ‘ Oh well , perhaps it 's fortunate that I find Mariánské Láznë quite an enchanting place . ’ |
| 4 | Better start walking there now , takes a bleeding hour to get round there ! |
| 5 | No but that takes a long while to get round . |
| 6 | I was in the country without a husband and needed a special permit to get in ! |
| 7 | Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months . |
| 8 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around ’ , Nigel explains . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around , ’ Nigel explains . |
| 11 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 12 | Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’ |
| 13 | It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff . |
| 14 | Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand . |
| 15 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 16 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 17 | Gloucestershire cricketer , David ’ Syd ’ Lawrence is making a last-ditch attempt to get back to full fitness after his knee injury . |
| 18 | But you still earned a few bob to get on . |
| 19 | Once in one of these classes one year I had a Jewish student got up and got very upset during such a class as this and stomped out and then slammed the door er which I was rather sorry about because erm I think he was being a little bit erm too sensitive because the person who was giving the paper said anything anyway erm , but warrant that , but he was just offended of the idea that anybody could suggest that Moses was n't Jewish , and of course |
| 20 | Following a bout of diarrhoea — due to an infection or whatever other cause — the digestive processes in our intestines take a little while to get back to normal . |
| 21 | When you come to detailed programme planning , you need variety and balance and , if you have a great deal to get through and a concentrated message to communicate , you still have to break it up and give people a chance to relax their brains as well as their bodies . |
| 22 | She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all . |
| 23 | And Coleraine missed a golden chance to get back into the game when Collins saved a Dave Nicholls penalty in the 48th minute . |