Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet . |
| 2 | Commanders who undervalued or ignored Ultra get short shrift . |
| 3 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
| 4 | It had nothing to do with teasing or playing hard to get . |
| 5 | She seemed to know that neither crying nor sulking ever got anyone anywhere . |
| 6 | She faltered , and fought desperately to get her head together . |
| 7 | They ran health centres ( offering a mixture of self-help , herbal-ism , old wives ' tales and orthodox medicine ) for women finding to their cost that FAMILY had a stronghold in the dwindling official health services ; they dug up neglected laws on sex equality and fought hopelessly to get them obeyed . |
| 8 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 9 | SAIC has also completed a port of HP 's Task Broker network load balancer , and has just got the go-ahead for seven further ports , thought to include DEC , Silicon Graphics and IBM . |
| 10 | He travels with camels and has just got back . |
| 11 | John Byrne says … he 's looking forward to playing first team football again and has still got a lot of goals left in him |
| 12 | Well , I think Savac and Sarouac are bad areas at present , there 's a lot of peninsular-Malaysia all through this period , and has now got quite tough erm and is probably the nearest to sustainable management of almost anywhere in the tropics now . |
| 13 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 14 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
| 15 | Whitlock thought of the Italian restaurant and moved closer to get a better look . |
| 16 | Beg forgiveness and say please get off my |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll see if I can get tickets , ’ was all he offered before kissing her sweetly on the mouth and going inside to get some paperwork together for the meeting with his lawyer who was driving out from Palma to see him . |
| 18 | He said nothing ; he put the phone down and walked away to get a bus . |
| 19 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 20 | Logical reasoning and decoding both got worse by the end of three days , and significantly recovered , almost to baseline levels , when 4 hours sleep a night was allowed . |
| 21 | Hugo Kemp took a mouthful of poached salmon and chewed slowly to get the flavour . |
| 22 | It 's a chatty book , full of such observations as the fact that Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant ‘ were simply good friends , though ineviably ablythe gossips and scandalmongers soon got to work ’ . |
| 23 | I accordingly shipped the pole and went forward to get the paddle . |
| 24 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 25 | Auctioneers had to do a lot of behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing just to get $100,000 aircraft to sell . |
| 26 | The feeling of anger and hurt now gets added to the disappointment and frustration . |
| 27 | Thus , concludes Popper , although we can never attain to Ultimate Truth , we can and do continually get nearer to it … |
| 28 | ‘ Half the world 's police and Interpol never got near him . |
| 29 | By contrast , the rather trashy and bitchy biog. of Nancy Reagan is compelling because of one 's disbelief that she could and did actually get away with as much as she did . |
| 30 | Anyway this particular Monday morning I did n't feel like getting up although my Mam had already shouted : ‘ If he thinks he 's going to have me at his beck and call just to get him his breakfast when he wants , he 's got another think coming . ’ |