Example sentences of "[noun] get [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed .
2 His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards .
3 Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds .
4 One day it took us a day and a half to get it back again .
5 If the caddie got it wrong more than twice , he was for the chop !
6 you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta
7 I said I did I said and I had an awful job to get it out again .
8 Dancing had been suggested but it would have bust the spell , and moves by Mallachy and Rory to get them off alone were put down with spiteful glee , accepted with good humour .
9 ‘ Do you realize , it has taken me two whole years to get you out here ? ’
10 One can pull interest rates up , but one can not push the string to get them down again .
11 but you 've got to curb him of that , I said make matters I said Dan get yourself down here now I said did either of you kick Danny ?
12 We hurtled at speed back to our ship , and Posi got us away about two nanoseconds after the Manport had withdrawn to the Fraxillian liner .
13 it 's going to be a dry day get it out early and get it dry tomorrow .
14 The day to get it not quite right , or even entirely wrong , is today .
15 The family man believes their new-found faith is ‘ a ploy to get them out earlier ’ .
16 George Canning got it exactly right almost 200 years ago when he addressed the House of Commons :
17 Right , Patch Get him down here Jean .
18 Particularly as in to the west and south of York , the ten mile radius gets you very very close to Wetherby and very close to Selby , which are not areas which fall within the York housing market .
19 As her mother was fond of saying — it had taken a lot of trouble to get her this far , and this last little step was going to take a deal of organizing as well .
20 Right , right , that was your object to get it as far away from the competition as possible really .
21 It took me a week to get myself together again , and by the time you got back from leave I 'd left Johannesburg because there were n't any jobs for me there .
22 When Peter got it so resoundingly wrong at Caesarea Philippi in telling Jesus not to go to Jerusalem under any circumstances , he received the rebuke to end all rebukes : ‘ Out of my sight , Satan ! ’
23 ‘ Old Auntie Mary , she 's seventy-six you know , had a heart attack and Uncle George broke a leg getting her upstairs away from the flood water .
24 Jochim to Speedy Ormanroyd 's lay-off a good one for Lewis gets it in quickly on the left foot Ormanroyd and then Speedy collided with Pearce as he went in to try and turn the ball goalwards and it 's all ended up a goal kick .
25 He had to thresh with his arms to get himself upright again and , it seemed to Marie , all he had done was drive himself even further down into the mud .
26 Nicholson himself has clearly not considered a return to the saddle , remarking : ‘ There is not enough brandy in France to get me up again . ’
27 If you ca n't remove the stain yourself , at least you will possibly be making it easier for the professionals to get it out later .
28 Robert von Tonder , leader of the white separatist Boer-estaat Party , warned : ‘ Since De Klerk wo n't allow us an election to get him out democratically , we will have to get him out by other means .
29 Charles got it in quickly as Patrick hesitated .
30 ‘ Where you 're concerned the Milettis got it wrong again , ’ the magistrate remarked to Zen as they stood at the door .
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