Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] get [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've left my computer programme going , God knows what it 's gon na do I 've only got half an hour to finish it ! |
| 2 | Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years . |
| 3 | Its evident thinness corresponds also to Ginguene 's observation : ‘ this thick rod which Rousseau mocks … has since got much more diminutive ’ . |
| 4 | I was never so self-assured again , though I rallied enough to get some good results in the School Certificate exams , and joined in enough activities — rowing , choir , dramatic society — to be dubbed as an all-rounder by the headmaster ( a description which brought jeers from my schoolmates ) . |
| 5 | Offspring A looks at it differently , because offspring A says , my sibling B has only got half my genes , therefore I will make sacrifices for B , wherever B R and greater than C as we saw . |
| 6 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 7 | I think that 's probably the one thing : Texas music has just got more variety to it than the Delta stuff or Chicago or New Orleans . |
| 8 | My brother has still got all the figures . |
| 9 | I could do with the company and Mrs Manners has still got enough turkey to feed the third world and the poor Albanians . |
| 10 | ‘ But as far as we know , she is still mechanically fine and she has still got some running life which is why she will be touring the preserved railways . ’ |
| 11 | So the old pot has still got some in but it 's really the new food . |
| 12 | ‘ Linford has still got another gear left in him , even after that race . |
| 13 | Pale , cold , clammy , yes , this is the opposite , you 've got all the signs and symptoms here of a stroke , now if , this could go on with and erm if somebody , if something is n't done very quickly with this compression the person has still got this bleed , or clot in the head and eventually they just kind of all come up into the foetus position , literally all goes spastic , all these spastic movements right , you finished writing ? |
| 14 | This reply comes in a stronger and a weaker form , but in either form it has clearly got some point . |
| 15 | Our sun has probably got enough fuel for another five thousand million years or so , but more massive stars can use up their fuel in as little as one hundred million years , much less than the age of the universe . |
| 16 | has probably got some in his shop . |
| 17 | If you want really to get that in every town and city and country , have a means test . |
| 18 | ‘ They give them stuff to read which has really got some relevance to the children 's life . |
| 19 | she has never got much energy in the morning as you know ! |
| 20 | I was standing up , offering to go downstairs to get more drinks , and glancing out of the window when I saw Jo . |
| 21 | He 'd better get that she-devil shifted . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get that washing on and think about a dinner , ’ Victoria said ; ‘ but you go along and see what 's happening and we 'll talk about that when you come back … . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd better get that cool-box unpacked before it melts , ’ Ruth breathed as Fernando moved his lips from her mouth to her throat . |
| 24 | You 'd better get that through your thick skull ! |
| 25 | And er you 'd better get that key actually . |
| 26 | Some days I think I 'm only young — I fell straight away for her [ the baby ] — I used to think before I was married I 'd better get all the clothes I want now because I 'll never get them when I 'm married — but I was wrong , because I can really have all I want now … |
| 27 | Now we 'd better get all this stuff off to the labs , but there 's no point in sending his keys — we shall need them . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd better get some lunch . ’ |
| 29 | Then we 'd better get some fluids inside him . |
| 30 | She shifted the rather heavy , though small , paper bag which she was carrying , and said : ‘ I guess I 'd better get some tea before all the cookies go . |