Example sentences of "get [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The members who got most out of it , and were most appreciated by the Boards , were those who saw their role as a symbiotic mixture of representing consumer complaints to managers and presenting a favourable public relations image for the Board . |
| 2 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 3 | A plainclothes policeman got leisurely out of the panda car and walked across the road to them . |
| 4 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 5 | The others expected and got little enough : they got even less . |
| 6 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 7 | When the man had had his face washed ( by stella ) and been given a drink , and one of the barmen had called for a taxi , Mother got right up and got on the stage and told Gary she was ready for her song now . |
| 8 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 9 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 10 | You got right through to me in a way nobody has ever done before . |
| 11 | Look if you put your boat into the boat-house now , he would n't see it till he got right down here again , and then perhaps- ’ |
| 12 | They were all , when you got right down to it , nomes . |
| 13 | He got right in to being that successful South Africa skipper ( 8 ) |
| 14 | With Jo I got right back to basics , and that meant starting with my own birth . |
| 15 | I got slowly out of bed . |
| 16 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 17 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 18 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 19 | I mean , we only got halfway up … |
| 20 | Katy and Jamie got ready very quickly and Mum gave each of them two wee spoons . |
| 21 | er it got terribly out of hand in the 19th century ; people throwing eggs from the top of the tower , the choristers and the people from the town blowing trumpets and all sorts of things , really riotous. er so it was reformed in 1844 er no more rotten eggs then and we do it very much as then ; facing the rising sun which was beautiful |
| 22 | Doctor Who got so incredibly popular that you found your weekends were no longer free either . |
| 23 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 24 | ‘ Not really , because it got so much bigger than we wanted it to straight away . |
| 25 | Really good actually seeing as it got so much smaller . |
| 26 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 27 | I had to walk three mile to work , Doubled up when you got so far down . |
| 28 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 29 | They they fix it up with wires and they got so far and as the tide rise , cos the ship come up and they take 'em out and take 'em to the dock , take 'em out with a heavy crane . |
| 30 | I never got so far in teaching you . |