Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I wrote it , ’ he remembers , staring at the floor like a child admitting to shoplifting , ‘ I was in the middle of a really , really serious obsession that got completely out of hand . |
| 2 | Try to read the feedback and get as definite a picture as you can . |
| 3 | I go along and watch women 's football and get really infuriated to see a man out there refereeing the game , and often in a very condescending manner ! |
| 4 | It is a chance to build relationships with the kids and to get close to just one or two of them . |
| 5 | He tried both of these old tricks on Eleanor and got thoroughly told off . |
| 6 | Once , twice , three times until , yes , it goes and opens its eyes and gets right up , right as rain — ; |
| 7 | There 's an awful lot of females who go through the programme and get nowhere or have unsuccessful attempts . |
| 8 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 9 | So I put her bicycle in the boot of my car and got here just after nine . |
| 10 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 11 | Once in our picturesque ski village , our friends were anxious to hire the gear and get straightaway into the serious business of descending headfirst down something snow-capped . |
| 12 | If you do a crime and get about thirty pounds , that 's about enough for one week . |
| 13 | Then they would all dance and jump about , waving palm branches and getting wildly excited , till the air resounded with shouts of " Hosanna , Hallelujah " and the equivalent in their own language . |
| 14 | If the C M I does n't lead to this kind of balance then it can have this sort of effect and get rapidly fatal tuberculosis occurring at the time of the primary infection . |
| 15 | We grouped for lunch and again filled our bottles from a spring and got underway . |
| 16 | After living as a vagrant for several more months and getting nowhere in his search for Katya , Grandfather Denknetzeyan decided to leave his beloved Russia . |
| 17 | One in Humberside said : ‘ We contacted 33 homes and got only nine replies despite post-paid envelopes . ’ |
| 18 | If the answer to the sum was twenty four , he 'd put forty two , and starting the sum the wrong side and getting very confused . |
| 19 | That at least had a light showing and at first I thought the rest of the building was in total darkness , but as I crunched gravel and got closer I could see they used extra thick curtains , maybe left-overs from the Blackout . |
| 20 | The tall and ever-cheerful Norman Teacher and his paddler Lieutenant Noel W. Cooper RNVR , were launched in a strong onshore wind but got away successfully from the submarine . |
| 21 | ‘ If boats use sonar or get too close , it is likely to panic the whales and cause them to scatter , and if a whale weighing over 40 tonnes becomes totally disorientated and charges off in any direction , anything could happen . |
| 22 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 23 | After brushing thoroughly , it is important to concentrate on specific areas that get particularly dirty . |
| 24 | The thermal properties of diamond are seen to make it an attractive substrate material for chips that get excessively hot , enabling silicon circuits to be packed much more tightly than on other substrates . |
| 25 | In the end Shaw 's wishes were largely thwarted : a group of loyal disciples laboured on , but the phonetic version of Androcles and the Lion which was published in 1962 was a lonely salvo in a campaign that got nowhere . |
| 26 | Tyrone Evans had been brought into the court 's car park when he overpowered his guard and got away in a blue Renault . |
| 27 | For you , desire is a mobile flung in all directions and getting nowhere . |
| 28 | Alyssia had planned to spend the entire fortnight relaxing on the beach , drinking in the sun and getting gloriously tanned . |
| 29 | Maura wished that she could meet a nice bloke and get right out of it . |
| 30 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |