Example sentences of "to get [pers pn] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he he used to get me up at seven o'clock , come to work for him . |
| 2 | He used to get me up at six to go in work for seven . |
| 3 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 4 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 5 | I ca n't seem to get it together at present . |
| 6 | His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all . |