Example sentences of "it [vb past] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped get her through one evening . |
| 2 | The tone could not be more seductive ; he could coo like a dove if it helped to get what he wanted . |
| 3 | It helped to get her mind organised . |
| 4 | And here lies a contradiction at the heart of AT&T 's original business , even before it tried to get into computers . |
| 5 | The frog 's forehead bulged as it tried to get its mind around a new idea . |
| 6 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 7 | It 'd got my writing on it . |
| 8 | I was n't really keen on injecting because of the name that it 'd got . |
| 9 | I 'd tried it once or twice before , a coupla times when I was younger , but I was n't over keen on it because of the , y'know , just 'cos of the name it 'd got really , y'know , having to inject it and that . |
| 10 | Now what I 'd like you to do I did n't realize it 'd got that late actually . |
| 11 | I mean you know what happened when , wh when th General Strike was on , there was er nothing entered unless it 'd got a permit from a Trades Council , and you know that do n't you ? |
| 12 | Allied Lyons who is also a major part of the British coffee trade , replied to the Global Consumer , that the fairness of trading was the responsibility of governments and GATT , it 'd got nothing to do with them . |
| 13 | So it 'd got this eggshell in the bottom and they used they would work a a mast a sail on it . |
| 14 | It 'd got to the stage where the workforce were not gon na talk to the management on a an official level , you know we were still talking informally at the picket line and , you know still trying to be helpful and offer our advice on what could be done to solve the dispute . |
| 15 | That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad |
| 16 | I just could n't , I thought I thought it 'd got something to do with absence . |
| 17 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 18 | So a local authority might then find itself in a situation that it 'd got a two tier site . |
| 19 | It 's got a main street , and I think it 'd got two other streets and that 's about all and sure enough one of them was Lilac Avenue . |
| 20 | But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds . |
| 21 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 22 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 23 | ‘ Then it began to get easier . |
| 24 | Maybe not the first tour but by the second tour , I think it began to get decadent . |
| 25 | As it began to get dark , we all settled around the guides ' fire , sharing the barbecued deer for supper . |
| 26 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 27 | Just before it began to get light , Liza Carrow , carrying a torch and with an old coat thrown over her nightdress , crept out of Four Winds and walked towards the cliff . |
| 28 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 29 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 30 | I pottered on out there until it began to get dark . |