Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |
| 2 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 3 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 4 | Yeah well , we got halfway through the vote . |
| 5 | When you came to get your your contract with er te te te and you were all in the same c contract , was that because you got together as a union , or whether you got t together as the worker ? |
| 6 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 7 | Andrew Carnegie was one of those enlightened people who provided libraries for rural areas on the mainland and certainly not the only one ; sometimes people got together under the leadership of the minister or the doctor and formed their own society . |
| 8 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 9 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 10 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 11 | He got together with the head of the local shopkeepers ' association to try to make shopkeepers understand how important it is not to sell solvents to young people . |
| 12 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 13 | A group of directors and employees got together for a discussion group and the resulting lively debate was recorded on a video currently doing the rounds of BNFL sites . |
| 14 | As early as 1970 , before linguistics became a separate department , the small group of linguistic teachers at Lancaster got together round a table , and discussed the idea of having a special research project which would be centred at Lancaster . |
| 15 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 16 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 17 | The 1990 Dinner was held on Saturday 22 September when 28 people got together in the Reception bar of the Private Dining Room suite in University House before proceeding to enjoy an excellent meal in the pleasant setting of PDR4 . |
| 18 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 19 | BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg |
| 20 | Raiders got away with a quantity of drugs , including adrenaline hydrochloride , hydrocortisone and cocaine between 1pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday . |
| 21 | Those who got away with a Heimatschuss ( a ’ blighty wound ‘ ) say they were lucky . ’ |
| 22 | SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead . |
| 23 | Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round . |
| 24 | They saw red when he got away with the offence by waving his warrant card at a traffic warden . |
| 25 | Heterosexual feminists argued that we had to be taken seriously as women , and if the media got away with the label of lesbians , then ‘ the women out there ’ would be alienated . |
| 26 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 27 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 28 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 29 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 30 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |