Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adj] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 2 | Apologising for not being in Northern Ireland since his first concert three years ago , he added : ‘ I 'm sorry it took me so long to get back . |
| 3 | What am I most likely to get out of this if I do it ? |
| 4 | WHY are you less likely to get caught speeding in a black car and most likely in a red one ? |
| 5 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 6 | ‘ When it took you so long to get here , I thought you must have gone on up to his place with him , but I suppose Nicky Kai is still in residence . |
| 7 | Why are you so urgent to get away from your husband 's house and back to your father 's ? |
| 8 | As I 'm not the person to answer you very little to get , I 'm get into something quite a lot , you know ? |
| 9 | Many people at midlife find it incredibly hard to get time to sit down , let alone spend an extra hour in bed . |
| 10 | As a professional carver I thought it only natural to get my hands on one of those new Arbortech Woodcarvers to add to my compendium of tools last year . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , if you get married now , ’ Aunt Lilian said , ‘ you may not find it so easy to get into politics . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He wo n't find it so easy to get another wife , ’ she said to Owen . |
| 13 | ‘ Why is it so important to get me back in your rotten little Church , Quiggers ? ’ |
| 14 | Why was it so important to get Steiner back and in the time scale indicated ? |
| 15 | ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘ |
| 16 | Why was it so difficult to get ministers to meet ( a judgement , incidentally , buttressed by a careful reading of the Franks Report ) ? |
| 17 | These patients can experience many kinds of problems when in a different environment such as increased stiffening of the back and limbs due to lack of exercise because they find it so difficult to get out of the hospital chair ; and incontinence for the same reason . |
| 18 | After all — had n't one of the things that had made it so difficult to get over Tony been the fact that he 'd got off scot-free ? |
| 19 | , I did n't know that one had gone , usually it 's the bulb over there that had gone , but I find it so difficult to get at , you change it . |
| 20 | The spokesman for the Liberal Democrats will probably agree that to go into further detail could make it less easy to get the type of consensus that we want . |
| 21 | And she found it terribly difficult to get dresses ! |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 23 | But although , for many purposes , this sense of separate identity is not only understandable and indeed highly desirable , it is going to make it extremely difficult to get the best out of that ambitious enterprise which goes under the code-name ‘ 1992 ’ . |
| 24 | I mean perhaps it 's not something there used to doing too much , but is it not possible to get them to amuse themselves ? |
| 25 | Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ? |
| 26 | That sort of assault makes it more difficult to get up . |
| 27 | With the onset of the government 's new community care policies , many women will find themselves playing the traditional role of carers without payment and will consequently find it more difficult to get out to work . |
| 28 | Thereafter , someone had decided to make it well-nigh impossible to get to Ulm from Messkirch and had constructed an obstacle course of road-works , diversions , traffic jams and misplaced signposts which did my temper no good at all in the sweltering heat . |
| 29 | The technique of reflecting back helps the interaction : ‘ Let me see : have I understood you right , that your son left home before his marriage ? ’ 'Do you find it really hard to get on with her then ? ’ |
| 30 | Is not it hard that all those measures have been placed on students at a time when they find it particularly difficult to get vacation jobs or part-time jobs in term time and when those who graduate find it increasingly difficult to get jobs to pay off the overdrafts that they have had to incur as students ? |