Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 2 | According to Mr Ryder , the nuclear inspectors decided to get together to swap information and to identify ‘ good practice ’ that might be codified into formal guidance notes . |
| 3 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 4 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 5 | Aunt Lilian had got very thin : her skin seemed to hang on her , like a shapeless dress . |
| 6 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 7 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 8 | I also knew that somehow my parents had got together to produce this baby . |
| 9 | I just believed for awhile that the dream had gotten away from me … |
| 10 | Calvinists had got no nearer to the truth about life than the Pope . |
| 11 | After Marilyn , she 'd be the best dressed woman at the wedding , blonde , shapely , in the green dress Marilyn had got so superstitious about . |
| 12 | She later found out that the bosses of the two companies had got together to work out which one of the couple would be the cheapest to sack . |
| 13 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 14 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 15 | Two hours later I collapsed onto the col , long after Enrique had got there , and every step a struggle . |
| 16 | She liked to wonder how a particular piece of jetsam had got there . |
| 17 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 18 | He wondered how many of the bits and pieces had got there ; especially the room full of empty bird cages or the room lined with different coloured pencil sharpenings . |
| 19 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 20 | Even those who support the view of a gradual assimilation of legacy and trust in the classical period in order to account for examples of loose language have some difficulty here : for nobody really wants to suppose that this process had got very far in Celsus ' day . |
| 21 | Tibbles had got hardly any time left at all . |
| 22 | So Jane found it easy to ask Flora — whom she found honest and direct — how she and Alastair had got together . |
| 23 | I can only think that the teacher wanted to get as much mileage from the whole thing as she could . |
| 24 | The hydrofoil had done four return journeys before its driver began to get really worried . |
| 25 | Four hydrogen one nitrogen all their bonds got get together and there 's one the result is one positive bond left over . |
| 26 | A spokesman for Network SouthEast said last night that every effort was being made before the strike began to get as many trains as possible in position for a Saturday morning start . |
| 27 | Fists were thrown and for a while things began to get very ugly . |
| 28 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 29 | Things started getting really heavy again after that . |
| 30 | But things did get eventually get better . |