Example sentences of "[vb infin] get [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I regret the temporary arrival of my better nature , you 'd better let me make a few calls and see what I can do to get you home today . ’ |
| 2 | You see I 've got it down again , I ca n't get it up |
| 3 | Why do you think get it so horribly wrong this time round in the general election ? |
| 4 | I would have got them all right except for |
| 5 | And this might have got them far enough and therefore they so the movement is , is not gon na go on from there , it 's stopped because the peasants have achieved everything they wanted to achieve . |
| 6 | We I wonder how quick they would have got him in though if he would n't have been in a private scheme . |
| 7 | Oh yes , you worked overtime , for which there was no pay , I mean , it did n't count er You see things , you know , there was less structure about it , then , erm and you could have ti if you wanted time off for something , you 'd probably have got it fairly easily , but er it did n't seem to be the great arguments that you 've had since . |
| 8 | wou would n't have got it back since . |
| 9 | TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before . |
| 10 | Had I hit it a bit harder , I would have got it quite close to the flag . ’ |
| 11 | You will try to get me in quickly , wo n't you ? |
| 12 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 13 | Trouble is , I keep blowing it up and it 's £80 a time to fix it , so I 'll have to get something else pretty soon … ’ |
| 14 | No , I mean it 's , it 's nothing , I rang erm Social Services this morning in Northampton and I got an appointment for an advisory thing on Thursday morning , erm , the women I 'm going to see she retires on Friday , she said well I 'll have to get you in quick , erm and she , they advise you on the , what you 've got to do to get into what I want to get into you see , so erm I 've got that to sort to do , I mean |
| 15 | Yeah he says oh that 's great , yeah that 's fine , so I 'll have to get it in soon because I wo n't be able to get him in till about |
| 16 | With the upstart Parsons that margin was as wide as a motorway , of course , but even Thomas Carter , Nature 's gentleman , could n't help getting it ever so slightly wrong , in his case by bending over backwards to minimize his achievements and rubbish his accomplishments in order to spare you the painful comparison with your own lacklustre status . |