Example sentences of "[vb past] get [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 2 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 3 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |
| 4 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 5 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 6 | She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Gajdusek … ’ she promptly decided to get in with another of her interview questions , though she made the mistake of looking at him , and his raised-eyebrow glance at her stopped her . |
| 8 | Then life started to get back to normal . |
| 9 | on Tuesday I went get in till nine o'clock ! |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week 's devastating floods . |
| 11 | Edna , worried about Celia , managed to get down to Four Winds for a little while each day and , as soon as Mrs Rafferty was discharged from hospital , resumed her duties with the child , who hardly let her out of her sight . |
| 12 | But this , of course , was the stock-in-trade of any of these people — Dutch or anybody else — who managed to get out of German-occupied Europe and fight with the Allies . |
| 13 | State-owned British Leyland , for example , had ( barely ) managed to get by with each employee only making six cars in 1979 . |
| 14 | First we would sit down and plan out our day ; second , we 'd decide what we expected to get out of each day , in terms of knowledge and experience ; third , we 'd go to work , and , finally , we 'd meet back at the house in the late afternoon . |
| 15 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 16 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 17 | I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met . |
| 18 | Since they had got in with this crowd , she had not felt very happy . |
| 19 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 20 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 21 | By the time the radius had got down to thirty kilometers , the escape velocity would have increased to 300,000 kilometers per second , the velocity of light . |
| 22 | Yeah I just swore at my father did well I said getting up at six o'clock in the morning every day and then go to work till six at night cos during the day I get tired so I use to lay down on his bunk then he 'd lift his little hat a way up and he 'd say er bloody fire 's out . |
| 23 | when , do n't forget what I said get down in that garage |
| 24 | sort of just waiting to see what he was gon na do and then Stacey comes out , I ca n't sleep and I said get back in that bloody bedroom oh dear |
| 25 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 26 | Although I was helping out Miss Louise I had to get up at six o'clock in the morning to do all the chores before school . |
| 27 | ‘ The weather was really hot and we had to get up at six in the morning to do the filming , ’ he recalls . |
| 28 | Plus , while I had to get up at eight for Whiteleys . |
| 29 | I used to try and not say er , you know , to make her feel uncomfortable and that sort of thing , but I did use to draw the line when they used to be eleven and half past eleven saying goodnight and I had to get up at half past , six o'clock , seven o'clock |
| 30 | In the meantime , though , she had to get on with some work . |