Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave him Robert 's ( old , unfortunately ) , address ; I do n't know if contact has been made , or if Charley has got somewhere to stay . |
| 2 | On occasions larger pieces fall from the table , but given the vast size of the investment cake , the East End has got very little . |
| 3 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 4 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 5 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 6 | Yet Uganda continues to get about $100m a year in foreign aid . |
| 7 | Aunt Lilian had got very thin : her skin seemed to hang on her , like a shapeless dress . |
| 8 | That 's because Ken forgot to photo photocopy the lyrics and they 're at his house , with some other stuff and they discussed what happened on T V last night , but Ethel starts to get really annoyed , seeing as she was the one turning up late , and like , she was on about , we 're paying a lot of money for this studio , let's use it . |
| 9 | As the ruling only applies to the institutions named , SPUC intends to get further banning orders made against other groups and named individuals as and when it becomes ‘ necessary ’ ( Irish Times , 30 Dec. 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Be Bertie Wooster keeps getting accidentally engaged to . |
| 11 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 12 | After Marilyn , she 'd be the best dressed woman at the wedding , blonde , shapely , in the green dress Marilyn had got so superstitious about . |
| 13 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 14 | Two hours later I collapsed onto the col , long after Enrique had got there , and every step a struggle . |
| 15 | For 1991 Kos has got together with Champagne Mumm , sponsors of world class yachting , to produce the first official IYRU calendar and a limited edition signed by Kos herself are available now through mail order . |
| 16 | The Mancs do get ludicrously self-righteous about it , like they chant only Mary-Whitehouse-approved stuff . |
| 17 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 18 | So Jane found it easy to ask Flora — whom she found honest and direct — how she and Alastair had got together . |
| 19 | and er Mrs Goodwin 's got about three , six eight , say nine thousand . |
| 20 | In Britain informal workers in London and the Midlands have got together to form ‘ Outwork ’ campaigns . |
| 21 | I ca n't believe it either , the BBC has got much over the crimble period all of there coverage is tailored to the scum — in fact the last match featured on MOTD that did n't involve them was us vs Arse . |
| 22 | I ca n't believe it either , the BBC has got much over the crimble period all of there coverage is tailored to the scum — in fact the last match featured on MOTD that did n't involve them was us vs Arse . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 25 | Anna had to get there by marriage |
| 26 | England made a decent 217 , with 68 from Boycott and 59 from Gower ; but after Greenidge and Haynes had got half-way to the target , Richards , who had missed the first match , played as only he can . |
| 27 | ‘ I think Giovanna 's got here early . |
| 28 | Philip 's got quite a way to go yet before he can beat me . ’ |
| 29 | Marx tries to get away from the idea of private property when discussing pre-capitalist social systems by using the phrase ‘ appropriation of nature ’ but in doing so he uses a word with the same root as ‘ property ’ . |
| 30 | It was about sex — not about sexual politics — but another show was about to go on the road , and Oz had got there first . |