Example sentences of "they get [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 But the three of them got on and Fred explained that ‘ we desperately wanted to turn into a dance band but did n't know how ’ .
2 In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man .
3 Some of them got on .
4 One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time .
5 ‘ Some of them got up my nose a bit … right sods the lot of them … there 's a collection of them , the Technical Drawing staff .
6 When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise .
7 Both of them got off and walked .
8 But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park .
9 More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage .
10 Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ?
11 Few of them got back to their own country .
12 I saw Changez 's eyes fall caressingly on his wife 's form and then rest on his prostitute 's grooving hips as the two of them got down to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas .
13 Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby .
14 One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle .
15 On the first morning one of them gets up , goes to the window , draws the curtain , and sniffs ostentatiously .
16 I would like to see better controls at the docks to stop them getting through . ’
17 There 's no way I ca n't see them getting out of trouble . ’
18 Throw some small insects into the web and find out what prevents them getting out before the spider can catch them .
19 The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment .
20 Not that I 've got anything at all against them getting out and about a bit now , ’ he added hurriedly , not wanting another Grimma on his hands .
21 After seeing the lovers return to the house , he listened with an ear to the wall until he heard them getting down to bedtime matters and then , in the words of firework manufacturers , lit the blue touch paper and retired .
22 It 's very easy for young people to come into politics , full of enthusiasm and full up of get up get up and go and many of them get up and go after a few years .
23 we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ?
24 You invited people you thought would dislike each other and you watched them get along swingingly .
25 Most of them get back into it in a big way .
26 I like watching them get out of the water — they look real funny .
27 They got round this by not telling their husbands until it was too late .
28 FIRST Millwall won the war — then they got round to winning this brutal but utterly compelling match at The Den .
29 The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families .
30 Oh yes yes , but erm this we found wa always was the case with the er County Council Legal Department that er by the time they got round to it the people had either gone abroad or something had happened er
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