Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 2 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 3 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |
| 4 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 5 | Well I thought those fires get red hot . |
| 6 | ‘ I had some trouble getting these , old chap . |
| 7 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 8 | Then , realising that it did n't take much for this man to get to her , she made sterner efforts to get herself more of one piece and , returning her hand to her lap , she drew out of nowhere , ‘ Not everybody can wear contact lenses , ’ and added for a touch of authenticity , ‘ I ca n't myself . ’ |
| 9 | The buoy shielded her from the view of the guards , and she used that advantage to get her breath back . |
| 10 | She 'd pushed her bicycle most of the way before she collected enough sense to get on and ride it . |
| 11 | To the bishops , she explained that she needed Protestant support to get the crown matrimonial for the dauphin ; then would she be in a position to combat heresy . |
| 12 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 13 | She had great difficulty getting herself accepted on a government-sponsored TOPS course because she was considered over-qualified . |
| 14 | She had ten minutes to get out of this jam , park and make it to the office . |
| 15 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 16 | No we paid sixty P to get in and |
| 17 | Last year I set an agenda which said that ’ we needed eighteen months to get in shape for the eventual economic upturn ’ . |
| 18 | We took 3 days to get back . |
| 19 | In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living . |
| 20 | We did n't have to queue for food we waited five minutes to get into the car , we did n't have to queue for food or coffee , we ke , we did n't even get into very long lines too pay . |
| 21 | We had great difficulty getting information on the atomic energy privatisation measure . |
| 22 | We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on . |
| 23 | ‘ But I thought we had all day to get to the school , ’ remarked Endill . |
| 24 | We had one chance to get it right and , thank God , we succeeded . |
| 25 | We had one lift to get everything up and down . |
| 26 | And we had terrible job getting a contract off him . |
| 27 | Last week a husband took his wife out for a drive and we had 45 minutes to get the place ready , wine chilled , chandeliers , and have a lobster dinner ready on the table by the time they got back . |
| 28 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 29 | Son died first the mother died five weeks later , we had wonderful fun getting that one sorted out . |
| 30 | They made sure children got safely on to the chairlift and picked them up and dusted them down if they fell . |