Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] get " in BNC.
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1 | One or two cars driving too fast got stuck but the road was passable with care . |
2 | It is also a mark of the wavering course the Tories have pursued , hopping uncertainly from blue-rinsed stage set to matey bar stool to Mr Major 's rediscovered soapbox , but seldom pausing long enough to get across the gravity of their message . |
3 | But me and Nige are saving up hard to get some extra money or put another twenty thousand down . |
4 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
5 | Father , how is that to be distinguished , in such conditions , from a Benedictine brother in dark habit and cowl , if he be young and stepping out briskly to get out of the rain ? ’ |
6 | They 've been open all hours … at Kingsholm this week … running on overtime getting ready for a game that could simply make or break the season … you know what they say about it never raining … it 's been pouring on Gloucester this season … defeat for the Cherry and Whites tomorrow would put them on the relegation trapdoor … |
7 | In spite of Fraser having only just got back , he was invited to accompany them , and just as naturally agreed . |
8 | And then coming back here to get changed or what ? |
9 | okay , okay erm yeah although normally you could do something like that while you can do that by phone you can call up and say yes we 're coming definitely just to get in touch and say it . |
10 | Beer was a very important part of monastic life where the daily ration of a monk could be as much as a gallon:of course there was always the caveat If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so that he can not join in the psalms , he is to be deprived of his supper . |
11 | ‘ It 's better than standing out here getting wet , anyway , ’ said Gurder . |
12 | And her cup of tea , God help her , sitting never even got |
13 | He does n't want to cover the Warwickshire area , and he 's hoping soon perhaps to get promoted to senior executive . |
14 | you know you sort of , you were there , I am as a trainer you were sort of digging away there getting a bit more information out about people . |
15 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
16 | Well there 's a bit of changing and messing about here to get it just right in n it ? |
17 | He asked students , ’ Are you really trying hard enough to get jobs during the vacation ? |
18 | All she could really blame him for was not working hard enough to get them out of it . |