Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in fact erm we only managed to get away with it by having the one |
| 2 | George stared at her and suddenly ached to get away , to take his coat and his briefcase and get into the car and escape to the haven of the Unit and work and the baby and … which brought him back to the reason for his starting to probe her feelings about the project . |
| 3 | I ca n't imagine anyone intimidating Jan , but she swears she only married to get away from her . |
| 4 | Governors generally tried to get as much support as possible from the Legislative Council , and they usually succeeded . |
| 5 | ‘ I just had to get away , that 's all . ’ |
| 6 | yeah , but I mean they just desperately wanted to get away from Bristol |
| 7 | Naylor was n't rejecting her — he just wanted to get closer to her . |
| 8 | ‘ They just wanted to get away from the car . ’ |
| 9 | I just wanted to get away . |
| 10 | Said a source close to Paula , who is reported to be expecting their first baby in December : ‘ They had a whirlwind romance and just wanted to get together straight away . |
| 11 | I should guess he just wanted to get there . |
| 12 | Some people complained that the realistic sobbing of the Beast , slumped on the ground at the ballet 's opening and again when Beauty hurls the rose back at him , was out of place in a ballet , but it conveyed the point without needing any artificial mime — something he always tried to get away from , wanting anyone to be able to understand his work without needing to learn the conventions first . |
| 13 | And although some of them were a lot less well-off than they had been , they still seemed to get away with most things , feeling not the least need to prove themselves , she supposed , like herself and Lizzie Braithwaite , and Maria Colclough , and Ethel Lord . |
| 14 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 15 | They also wanted to get away from the idea of the traditional rock tour . |
| 16 | They also wanted to get away from the idea of the traditional rock tour . |
| 17 | He also wanted to get away from having four actors to play 33 characters . |
| 18 | Far from wanting him to hold her , she now wished to get as far from him as possible . |
| 19 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 20 | Off he went ; he must have persuaded my mother because when I eventually did get home , she did n't put up any resistance . |
| 21 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |
| 22 | As it was , they 'd improved markedly on their performance against Wales , yet had got nowhere . |
| 23 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 24 | While she ironed Willis 's stiff underclothes which , aired day after day , never seemed to get quite dry , the accusations against her , not inside her mind but at some point detached from it , continued without pause . |
| 25 | Karen Black , herself blonde and Nicholson 's co-star in Five Easy Pieces fell in love with him , but they never managed to get together . |
| 26 | Andy and I never did get properly told off for what happened , and he hardly ever mentioned that day to me unless he had to . |