Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house . |
| 2 | Younger by four years than his go-getting elder brother , Ryan was basically easygoing , with no driving ambitions , content just to get by . |
| 3 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 4 | I 've kept him informed and he has just to get on with his job . |
| 5 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
| 6 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 7 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 8 | She snapped the locks on the case , lifting it from the table , wanting only to get away from Luke Calder as fast as she could . |
| 9 | I 'd never be so desperate for you , Travis McKenna , that I 'd stoop so low ! ’ she cried and pushed herself to her feet , wanting only to get out of there . |
| 10 | Still , the little man seemed somehow to get by . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt like I was escaping just to get in , ’ he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel . |
| 12 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 13 | ‘ I came here to get away from them ’ . |
| 14 | Because I came here to get away from people , not to bump into them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He came here to get away from all women . |
| 16 | I came here to get away from that . ’ |
| 17 | She would do well to get out of the area before they turned up . |
| 18 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
| 19 | He reckoned he had done well to get away with two cups of tea and forty minutes of reminiscence before an opening arose to thrust in a question . |
| 20 | ‘ I really have n't had a chance to press my claims and I sincerely believe I am pushing uphill to get back into the side for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 22 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 23 | We 've got to win twice to get off |
| 24 | You 've got to you 've got to win twice to get off . |
| 25 | His next stop was Fontevivo , then Bellena , where a rather handsome air-force pilot used sometimes to get on . |
| 26 | This is probably the most frequently heard sound experienced by people who are new to badger watching and if you do hear it , it is probably time quietly to get up and go home . |
| 27 | And Chapman , 51 , was so traumatised by the experience he vowed never to get back behind the wheel , magistrates heard . |
| 28 | By the end of the year all the other masters who had been in the forces had returned , and life was beginning slowly to get back to normal . |
| 29 | And you know in one week , but I 'm quite willing you know just to get on with the handicraft , but I just ca n't be committed . |
| 30 | ‘ Christ , ’ grumbled Yanto , ‘ that did n't take long to get around . |