Example sentences of "[be] [adj] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwin Pettigrew would have a single room , but it had not been possible to get more than one , which meant that Daisy would have to share with Sister Dew . |
| 2 | Nesbitt and his two Italian companions had evidently been fortunate to get away from Bahdu ; it was here that the first of their servants was murdered ; two others were killed in the course of the journey . |
| 3 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 4 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 5 | You 're supposed to get far with me . |
| 6 | They 're lucky to get so much as a mouthful . |
| 7 | You 're sure to get there first . ’ |
| 8 | Oh we 're all getting there |
| 9 | About the time we 're fucking get away about six quid ! |
| 10 | Well we 're keen to get here are n't we ? |
| 11 | " You 're anxious to get there , " Mr. Mendez said . |
| 12 | If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd have been lucky to get as far as the Treshnish Isles , ’ said Ann . |
| 14 | Colin Calderwood says that everywhere you go people stop and wave and that 's very nice but it 's been good to get away this week but now they 're back in town the pressure will start to build |
| 15 | He admits they are unlikely to get much ; prospecting is just a way to pretend to re-live history . |
| 16 | Arguments that balconies and swimming pools pose dangers for children are unlikely to get very far . |
| 17 | Am going to advance ’ , they are unlikely to get anywhere near even ‘ Send three and fourpence . |
| 18 | Said his wife had been in need of a holiday and he had been unable to get away . |
| 19 | Supplies of the currency have been restricted to keep up its value , and people in remoter parts of the country have been unable to get enough . |
| 20 | It 's based on the equality of opportunity we talk about , that it should , no matter what your background , erm where you come from , as Marianne rightly says , you are able to get right to the top . |
| 21 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 22 | Anne felt an urge to throw the kind of temper tantrum she had been able to get away with when she was six years old . |
| 23 | They have been able to get away with it , because it is difficult to reproach the Germans for pursuing an excessively sound monetary policy and sticking to low inflation . |
| 24 | Occasionally she has been able to get away and walk the streets of London , or slip out with friends without looking over her shoulder . |
| 25 | Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’ |
| 26 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 27 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 28 | The police are n't telling us anything — I have n't been able to get as far as Marshall and the others just look mysterious and say they do n't know . ’ |
| 29 | Neither had been able to get home for her funeral , but they had telegraphed a big wreath and paid their fair share of the undertaker 's bill , after which the letters and dollars stopped and Vi and Mary had grown even closer . |
| 30 | A couple of years ago , he 'd never even have been able to get this far . |