Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 2 | I only got I only got |
| 3 | I 'll eat anything provided someone else gets it ready . |
| 4 | He mentioned he often gets the coaching bug , I say Leeds should give him the opportunity to get more involved in that side now . |
| 5 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 6 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , 'e told me ter get out an' called me a lazy so-an'-so so I stuck one on 'im . |
| 8 | He also advised them again to get a high-profile chairman and a well-known editor . |
| 9 | I told you before to get some mince and put potatoes in and that , see |
| 10 | I told him also to get cheese moments and scampi fries , and he may stop at McDonald 's . ’ |
| 11 | He encouraged us also to get more involved in equine matters , considering the potential Ireland had for such things . |
| 12 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 13 | An affected young man with acne ordered me curtly to get out . |
| 14 | Yeah it 's about , it 's a true story It 's got this man right , and they killed him just to get the diamonds , and now she 's acting as a , and she 's killing them . |
| 15 | He put out his hands almost against his will , took up one of the mallets and swung it testingly to get the feel of its balance , picked up a punch at random and applied its point , none too deftly because his hands were tremulous , to a half-defined fold of drapery in the nearest block of stone . |
| 16 | When , when I started you only got payment . |
| 17 | you lost him then got him back and then he died ! |
| 18 | ‘ I felt I never got a chance there , but I have been given the chance at Norwich and I 'm very pleased with how well it has gone . ’ |
| 19 | It was sweet of you to go ; I just thought I better get something but once these attacks start it 's a bit too late to take anything really . |
| 20 | suddenly thought you still got to have a little holdall membership forms in it , have n't you ? |
| 21 | I thought you only got one ? |
| 22 | I thought you usually get your stuff in for the week ? |
| 23 | It took him longer to get there after the performance but he was away from all the problems of the rest of the company . |
| 24 | Ace also felt a twinge of sadness for the Colonel , but felt it best to get on with the job in hand . |
| 25 | We knew it never got submerged by the tide and our idea was to take some photographs of a full moon rising over Widemouth . |
| 26 | He thought he never got it but it come through . |
| 27 | thought he only got one . |
| 28 | Until a few years ago this was deadly serious stuff : ‘ The Americans would ram us if we came close — they knew it took us longer to get repaired . ’ |
| 29 | ( Or did you feel that you wanted to say more ? ) 3 Did everyone else get a fair chance to express their opinion ? |
| 30 | so what I did I just got four packets of their dozens , cos he wo n't have anything else except Bovril |