Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] got [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway , I 'll meet you down here tomorrow , tell you how I got on with Gazzer . ’
2 And that 's how I got on to him .
3 I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that
4 How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know .
5 I 'm not too sure how she got on with my wayward outlines .
6 Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself .
7 Some of the screws were all right , but it all depends on how you got on with them .
8 to see and talk about it between the two of you and see how you got on with it .
9 Then , unwilling to let the subject of the rediscovery of Walter Machin drop , he said : ‘ You were saying — about how you got on to him . ’
10 A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) .
11 Teachers will wonder how they got on without detailed ‘ programmes of study ’ , ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ , etc , and ‘ curriculum managers ’ , like Danish heads , will perhaps be able to take a more relaxed line on managing the curriculum : ‘ Some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ .
12 R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + +
13 I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out .
14 The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue .
15 So it was him who sh I think it got , how it got through to him .
16 I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house .
17 It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire !
18 It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren .
19 It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park .
20 One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris .
21 That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it .
22 I thought to myself well if I do n't write it down now cos that 's why I got back in my car .
23 On the other hand she might tell all afterwards when she got back to literary London .
24 ‘ She told me this morning when she got back to the yacht that they planned on going .
25 Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ?
26 Every instant of her time from when she got back from work till it was time for Emily to be tucked up in bed was devoted exclusively to her precious little daughter .
27 Yet she reached the station where she got out without having progressed any further than the first page .
28 Jamie was why you got back on the horse , why you did n't say if you were afraid when they stitched the cut on your face after the brakes on the bike failed .
29 I remember when we got out of playing the tiny places , and we were resident at The Marquee and packing it out .
30 Yeah , it was five o'clock this morning when we got out of here .
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