Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 'd better get straight to bed , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ put in Elaine now , ‘ I 'd better get upstairs and help Nannie to get the tribe to sleep , because they 're so excited . ’ |
| 4 | I think we 'd better get now confusing . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd better get inside , ’ he bit out suddenly , his eyes glittering under knotted brows . |
| 6 | We 'd better get inside . ’ |
| 7 | We 'd better get home . " |
| 8 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 10 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd only got about eight caravans then . |
| 12 | He was in pain when he 'd just got here . |
| 13 | Well I 'd just got there , it was just between quarter past and ten past and twelve were there . |
| 14 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 15 | I 'd just got far enough to notice |
| 16 | That was what Josey had told Lisa when she 'd finally got home , flush-faced and anxious , still upset from her angry encounter with Alexander Vass and worried sick about little Emily . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd best get as far from Dalston as I could , so I came this side of London Bridge and looked for lodgings . |
| 18 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 19 | He 'd always got so many acts going . ’ |
| 20 | But yeah he probably come past no he probably went up there as we come down that corner by erm Ipsleigh and when they come back we 'd probably gotten here by then . |
| 21 | In any case , she 'd probably got as much out of Andrew as she was going to . |
| 22 | ‘ I came here to get away from them ’ . |
| 23 | Because I came here to get away from people , not to bump into them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He came here to get away from all women . |
| 25 | I came here to get away from that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do you really believe I 'd have blown a career I loved just to get even with you for something that happened ten years ago ? |
| 27 | I decided then to get right out of your life . ’ |
| 28 | Half an hour later : Z : " I could n't get a word in edgeways " , muttered as he managed finally to get away . |
| 29 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |
| 30 | I did well getting away not handing them in , ’ said Mr Lavery . |