Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a restaurant in Paris and suddenly wished to get out into the country . |
| 2 | More than anything Mungo suddenly wanted to get out of the forest ; to be in his room , or talking to one of the family , or anywhere . |
| 3 | I just got to get out to where it 's light . |
| 4 | Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets . |
| 5 | I only just managed to get back to our house before collapsing into bed . |
| 6 | When talking about grief a frequent comment is , ‘ We never used to have this sort of fuss made in the good old days : we just had to get on with it ! ’ |
| 7 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 8 | Mind you , I did n't have time for a refresher course , we just had to get on with it . |
| 9 | No question of a divorce and marriage , she just had to get on with it . |
| 10 | Mm nobody we just had to get on with my work . |
| 11 | But in the final analysis , the thing that used to make me happy was making me miserable , so I just had to get out . ’ |
| 12 | As I watched the big mechanical blades of the combine tear into the barley , I just had to get out there on to that hallowed ground and start detecting . |
| 13 | This arrangement , cleverly yet quite simply managed , would give him a couple of hours to get on with what he desperately wanted to get on with : to climb into bed with Downes 's beautiful and doubtlessly over-sexed wife , Lucy , and get his bottom on the top sheet before his time ran out . |
| 14 | He desperately wanted to get up and speak to her . |
| 15 | He desperately wanted to get up , make himself a cup of tea or get a drink and walk around and think ; instead , he was trapped . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't go particularly fast today I just wanted to get round . ’ |
| 17 | This is not Norma 's fault , she 's probably quite a nice dear who never wanted the fame , never wanted a prime minister for a husband , just wanted to get on with the washing up back in Huntingdon . |
| 18 | ‘ What would happen if anyone just wanted to get out of the partnership — I mean , without a death being involved ? ’ |
| 19 | No way they could see I just wanted to get out of their prison . |
| 20 | I just wanted to get out of there . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's easy now to say he was hasty , yet at the time he just wanted to get out of the place because he was so ill . |
| 22 | I just wanted to get out and live my life . |
| 23 | I just wanted to get out , escape , find her . |
| 24 | I just wanted to get out . |
| 25 | He was in no hurry , but just wanted to get out of that town as soon as possible . |
| 26 | I just wanted to get out of there . ’ |
| 27 | I just wanted to get out of there . |
| 28 | Maybe I just wanted to get out of that room . ’ |
| 29 | Terry did n't want any truck with service medicos , he just wanted to get back to the States and see Madeleine , Sulome and Gabrielle . |
| 30 | As as a direct result of it erm without anything about it erm Mr in court just wanted to get in and out . |