Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I do n't much want to get anywhere , ’ I mumbled . |
| 2 | They were the big surprise at Phillips ' auction of collectors ' items in Oxford , they were only expected to get about fifty pounds . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope you 're not in too much hurry to get home , ’ said Mrs Wright . |
| 4 | Well you know , you 've only got to get maybe smallpox back again and that will knock all their predictions for six . |
| 5 | We 're all going to get either cancer or heart disease . |
| 6 | However , in a foreword to the report , Lady Howe , the campaign 's chairman , stresses that the initiative is a long-term one and that it is only beginning to get underway . |
| 7 | In either case Kasper could only have got there , like many of the top racers , on crutches . |
| 8 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 9 | in fact erm we only managed to get away with it by having the one |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I ca n't imagine anyone intimidating Jan , but she swears she only married to get away from her . |
| 12 | You watch , eleven o'clock we 'll all start to get really friendly with them |
| 13 | The festival will feature more than twenty bands and if it all does get too much for you . |
| 14 | You can scale the walls if you are so determined to get away , but what then ? ’ |
| 15 | The French believed that as smugglers in rowing boats constantly managed to get ashore on the English coast , an invasion fleet , given a favourable southerly wind and a calm , dark night , should be able to do the same , and hoped to use some of these clandestine sailors as pilots . |
| 16 | Governors generally tried to get as much support as possible from the Legislative Council , and they usually succeeded . |
| 17 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 18 | Ann is afraid ; she just wants to get away , there is nothing she can do . |
| 19 | Legal technicalities mean he could have to stay in Goa for another 4 months and understandably he just wants to get home . |
| 20 | ‘ Laura just wants to get home to play with Louis and live a normal life . |
| 21 | I just want to get away from my wife and get some peace . |
| 22 | I just want to get away from my normal surroundings . ’ |
| 23 | I heard her say to Cathy , can I come round to your house tonight , I just want to get away from . |
| 24 | Look , I just want to get home as soon as possible . |
| 25 | You just want to get there . ’ |
| 26 | You just want to get there ’ |
| 27 | just wanting to get away from traditional . |
| 28 | But you 're not just going to get away with it , this time . |
| 29 | He was just beginning to get heartily sick of the whole newspaper business , when Hayling phoned to follow up Ben Lowe 's letter of invitation . |
| 30 | It contained the massive diversity of skills , of the workers in metal , wood , textiles and ceramics without whose inherited ‘ mysteries ’ and superb ingenuity with primitive tools the inventions of the Industrial Revolution could scarcely have got further than the drawing board . |