Example sentences of "i get far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of her time at Somerville Sue comments : ‘ I 'm afraid I got far more from my extra-curricular activities than I did from my studies ’ . |
| 2 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 3 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 4 | Glenn Clements , a burly policeman who took a break from his job to be in charge of the Pinnochio group , says : ‘ I 've got four kids and I get far more pleasure taking these children on holiday than I do my own . ’ |
| 5 | I get far enough up to see the house and identify it by its position and the garden furniture , then I climb back down , go to the wall and jump up , catching hold of the concrete ridge tiles on top of the wall and pulling myself up . |
| 6 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 7 | I 'll stop before I get far to sick & perverted ! ! |
| 8 | I get far more offended going to Goodison and hearing those animals doing gorilla impressions than anything else Ive ever heard . |