Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they get " in BNC.
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1 | The ‘ in ’ computer changes with the ‘ latest ’ game — they will be happy with whatever you get ( if you are foolish enough to let them get their hands on it ! ) . |
2 | Not only did they get a promise from the secretary of the men 's union that they would be paid full wages by the union if they came out on strike ( unusual , if not unprecedented for non-members ) but the agreement subsequently signed with Neill 's management included some improvements in their piece rates . |
3 | Even if they 'd let them in let them get their seats and said look the bar is not open . |
4 | I could not stop them , so I rather let them get on with it … |
5 | If they were really brother and sister , they were a strange pair , but that was nobody 's business but their own , and like all the other members of the company , Noreen just let them get on with it . |
6 | You have to make things happen , not let them get mentioned , discussed and then forgotten . |
7 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
8 | He was not letting them get away with this easily . |
9 | She will slow her pace down for them and keep a close eye on them as they amble along near her , but she will not let them get too far away from the home base . |
10 | These periods of reflection and decision-making are important , but we must not let them get out of hand . |
11 | We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again . |
12 | and er , er , er , and the poor are getting poorer and they will not let them get out of the poverty trap . |
13 | ‘ I should just let them get on with it , ’ said Ellen lightly , ‘ so long as they do n't start sacrificing goats . |
14 | but then again I 'd rather just let them get on with it I 'm not trying to convert you to the better way of doing things , cos obviously I do n't know a whether there 's |
15 | A handsome , confident man , who had managed to retain his friends without ever letting them get on to too intimate ground . |
16 | What d' ya think of them like do they get on your nerves at all ? |
17 | Do n't ever let them get their knives in you . ’ |
18 | One , he recalls , told him : ‘ This is what people wanted — now let them get on with it . ’ |
19 | Well let them get on with it . |
20 | There is already a feeling in some people 's minds that in athletics , as in so many other aspects of life , what can be done with the human body will be done , and that we might as well let them get on with it . |
21 | ‘ We ca n't let them get away with that , ’ said Mrs Mott eyeing Harry Dodson 's looped festoons of smilax , positively growing before her eyes . |
22 | I love my wife and children but I do n't let them get in the way of company work . ’ |
23 | So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down . |
24 | Do n't let them get you . |
25 | Mother of God , do n't let them get my house . |
26 | If not , speak out — do n't let them get away without doing their share . |
27 | ‘ Do n't let them get hit . |
28 | ‘ I 'm hardened to the noise that D and Baby make at home , but I do n't let them get away with it while I 'm around . ’ |
29 | ‘ Well , I should n't let them get away with it like that , all the same . ’ |
30 | ‘ You ca n't let them get hold of her , Rachaela . |