Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also dinner has tended to get later and later in the day . |
| 2 | And while free markets have become even freer , relative economic performance has seemed to get even worse . |
| 3 | He has hurried to get there and tell the wife before the police arrive . ’ |
| 4 | Now when he wants go get outdoors he finds so many ways barred to him . |
| 5 | They have seen the prosperity of the west but perhaps do n't realise how long it has taken to get there , and the imperfections likely . |
| 6 | Without wishing to tempt providence in any way , we appear to have got away lighting insofar as Winter is concerned . |
| 7 | We are disappointed to say the least with the bilateral talks which appear to have got nowhere . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If the LBS has tried to get away from the British ‘ crumpled suit ’ image with him , ’ Bloch says , ‘ then , boy , has it succeeded . |
| 9 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 10 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |
| 11 | They 'd had to get away from Louise 's mother ! |
| 12 | There was no pressure on her to help him , but still she 'd agreed to get together as much information on Jenner as she could over the weekend . |
| 13 | There were cars parked down both sides even if I 'd wanted to get closer , which I did n't . |
| 14 | From their boat , they saw that everything on the island was entirely covered with fine white dust , like snow , and that the trees on the northern part of Krakatoa and Verlaten Island had been stripped of their leaves and branches by the rain of falling pumice , while those growing on Lang Island and Polish Hat seemed to have got away without much damage . |
| 15 | Seemed to have got rather a lot of margarine on there , hope you 're going to eat all your toast today , not like yesterday |
| 16 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 17 | Two leaders of the Reform Circle movement , Csaba Tabajdi and Ferenc Gazso , are missing from the new line-up , while the People 's Democracy Platform , the reformists ' left-wing allies , seemed to have got more than their share of the leading places . |
| 18 | ‘ I think perhaps they 'd begun to get rather fond of one another . |
| 19 | It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service . |
| 20 | Or are you going to start getting even less money than you do now , and want me to take a cut in the housekeeping ? |
| 21 | Valerio Viccei , 37 , who is thought to have got away with £26 million from the daring robbery , was flown from Heathrow to Rome where he faces questioning over 50 unsolved crimes . |
| 22 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 23 | ‘ He said , ‘ You 're going to have to get seriously fit , and if you commit to doing it , you must complete it ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Both Kosi and Lars figure that we 're a lot closer to Moloch than to Belial , but we 're going to have to get there under our own steam . |
| 25 | The European ‘ gridlock ’ and the American indecision will embolden every despot with a little firepower to do what the Serbs seem to have got away with . |
| 26 | And we seem to have got away with it , likewise . |
| 27 | After the lecture , every day threatened refutation , but so far I seem to have got away with it . |
| 28 | Scotland seem to have got away with it at the moment . |
| 29 | Police inquiries seem to have got nowhere but they believe , as do Jim 's neighbours and friends that the killer is being shielded within the local community . |
| 30 | ‘ I seem to have got entirely the wrong end of the stick this afternoon , ’ she said sadly . |