Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried both of these old tricks on Eleanor and got thoroughly told off . |
| 2 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 3 | And I want to see more of France — I had a ball there — but after Paris I went to Spain and got really ill . |
| 4 | We sat in the garden today Luce and we got like , me Lucy and Tom and got about three pounds off all the little removes that came in |
| 5 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 6 | Go on foot from Thomas More Street or Wapping High Street and get there by 9.45am . |
| 7 | They had taken all she had , and nobody did that to a woman of Liverpool and got away with it . |
| 8 | Your old ships , my lord King , were already engaged with the ships of Earl Siward and getting much the best of it . |
| 9 | ‘ To save souls for God and to get very rich , ’ was his straightforward answer . ) |
| 10 | Each one of them saw himself as El-ahrairah , who could be impudent to Frith and get away with it . |
| 11 | In last week 's edition of The Sunday Telegraph , Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote : ’ It was a woman speaking from inside Dubrovnik against a background of shellfire who said : We expected so much from Europe and got so little . ' |
| 12 | The Greece that got away from the Turks was a country of peasants , local clan chieftains and Orthodox priests , with only a sliver of a mercantile and professional upper class . |
| 13 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
| 14 | ‘ User Friendly did absolutely nothing for a week after the St Leger and got so full of herself that we nearly had to tie her down , ’ smiled Clive . |
| 15 | The chap from Crime & The City Solution follows the great Australian rock tradition of making a record in Berlin and getting more and more swamp rocky as the years advance . |
| 16 | She also had an irresistible urge to deceive Wakelate and get away with it whenever she could , even though such deceptions were very easy to accomplish . |