Example sentences of "he got [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office . |
| 2 | As a result , he consistently neglected the search for sponsorship and , when in desperation he got around to looking for it , it was too late . |
| 3 | But he got neither . |
| 4 | But a little matter of a birdie for Bernhard was n't going to unsettle Seve , and he got straight back to the job , hitting some lovely shots to the green . |
| 5 | And he got straight in front there . |
| 6 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 7 | He got ropily to his feet and raised the pistol in his right hand . |
| 8 | His attention settled on the ducks on the lake but whenever he got near they fled in panic to the shore and sheltered under bushes and trees where he could not reach them . |
| 9 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 10 | The general allegations in it had been made before : Harry Phibbs had a moment of fame for calling the late Earl of Stockton ‘ a war criminal ’ on the strength of Count Tolstoy 's theories , but he got away with it . |
| 11 | Ballesteros 's 69 was more of a scramble , particularly over the closing holes , but he got away with it thanks to a short game which has been very consistent both this week and last . |
| 12 | Not clever stuff , but he got away with it . |
| 13 | But if he got away , that was just too bad for you . |
| 14 | He got away with being what many others could only secretly aspire to be . |
| 15 | They saw red when he got away with the offence by waving his warrant card at a traffic warden . |
| 16 | Even royal uncles traditionally drew the line at that , something which explains why Gloucester 's action seemed so shocking to contemporaries and , perhaps , why he got away with it so easily in the short term . |
| 17 | It was amazing that he got away with it . |
| 18 | As far as I was concerned , he got away with it . |
| 19 | She had always been quite dependent on Keith , which was why he got away with such a lot , but eventually she has grown more confident , and believes that she can now make it on her own . |
| 20 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 21 | There was nothing we could make stick so he got away with it . ’ |
| 22 | It seems to me highly likely that the killer had locked himself in and that he got away during that fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 23 | 1 knew we should be in trouble if he got away . |
| 24 | He was behind that very nasty business of the Indian Ocean Bank — that was the nearest he got to coming unstuck , but the thing was so complicated with nominees in the Caribbean and nominees of other nominees in Hong Kong that he got away with it . |
| 25 | ‘ — until he got away . |
| 26 | Mills says : ‘ He got away with it , of course . |
| 27 | He got away from her and looked for Dangerfield . |
| 28 | As he was wearing only trousers and shoes he knew that he would soon be picked up in the town , so he got away through alleys and into the country . |
| 29 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 30 | Even royal uncles traditionally drew the line at that , something which explains why Gloucester 's action seemed so shocking to contemporaries and , perhaps , why he got away with it so easily in the short term . |