Example sentences of "we get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 2 | However , I am afraid we got nowhere with the salvage of crashed aircraft problem because of the legal problems of encroaching upon the law of the sea . |
| 3 | No , we got nearly five now . |
| 4 | In brief , we got thoroughly exhausted . |
| 5 | Somehow we got ashore and into the stockade , but we knew there was going to be a fight . ’ |
| 6 | On this occasion , we got straight down to business . |
| 7 | When we did start playing proper gigs we got surprisingly good money . |
| 8 | ‘ We got lifted , we got ahead and were in control , ’ Conner said . |
| 9 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 10 | On the approach there was a fine view over a glacial lake and crevassed snowfields to the West Col. The black , banded summits of Lhotse and Everest reared above the escarpment at the valleyhead , but were to disappear as we got closer . |
| 11 | As we got closer , we could see that the Hall was a heavy , dark building with a large main entrance . |
| 12 | We 've just emerged , pinching ourselves , from a decade when we got rather used to the unexpected . |
| 13 | We got rather matey . |
| 14 | James Riley , 14 , said : ‘ Then one of us said ‘ No , it 's a baby ’ and as we got nearer we could see it was a little boy . |
| 15 | Not too bad we we got well we had been together near enough since we left school but you know we decided to have a go at it seriously in in seventy five and then we recorded an album and a single in say seventy seven , seventy eight . |
| 16 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 17 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 18 | But we got away with them . |
| 19 | We did our jobs , we fell into bed exhausted , and in our off-duty moments we got away from the camp as much as possible . |
| 20 | We got away and were finally rescued by a park ranger . |
| 21 | His gargantuan repast seemed to have put The Fat Controller in a better mood and avuncularity seeped back into his tones the further we got away from the pizzeria . |
| 22 | We got away . |
| 23 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 24 | I thought if we got away from the boat for a while … ’ |
| 25 | Southern Princess went down around 0300 hours but we got away in the lifeboats . |
| 26 | Er yeah erm the smoke machine thing we got away with now , we went to see them . |
| 27 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 28 | When we got outside I said to Shanti , ‘ That nice man has said you can be our little girl for ever . ’ |
| 29 | When we got outside , I was n't sure whether to shut the door on the latch or leave it ajar for the nurse . |
| 30 | Mum and I used to go in and say why it looks alright and when we got outside |