Example sentences of "a [noun] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depression is when a recession gets really bad . |
| 2 | The lads had pitched their tents behind some small dunes and it was a struggle to get there . |
| 3 | It always makes a change to get away from dreadnoughts , so for a review guitar we chose the SJ-20 model . |
| 4 | A car to get away with . |
| 5 | The only snag was for a tran public transport conference everybody needed a car to get there . |
| 6 | No , they would rather lick stones for salt than let that villain , that coward , that son-of-a-jackass and a sow get away with … . |
| 7 | A mother does not spank a child to get even with it . |
| 8 | Sounding for all the world as though she quite hated him , Gwen commented disgustedly , ‘ I have never known a child to get so dirty ! ’ |
| 9 | I think it took us about an hour and a half to get home ! |
| 10 | There are other ways , you know , for a girl to get away from home . ’ |
| 11 | We know that Rod Mansfield of Ford 's SVE ( now engineering director at Aston Martin ) fought a battle to get decently shaped seats in the SVE-developed cabrio , and a huge difference to that car they make . |
| 12 | a group to get together . |
| 13 | Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt . |
| 14 | ‘ We thought you 'd be having a job getting there so we gave you plenty of time . |
| 15 | ‘ I take the view that it is wise for ministers to have sufficiently long in a job to get thoroughly on top of it . ’ |
| 16 | As the yard cleared of workers and demonstrators a meeting got underway between their representatives and management . |
| 17 | She was a desperate woman , her incompetent attempts at blackmail motivated only by a desire to get as much money as possible in her new widowhood . |
| 18 | Why should there be a surface to get beneath , a skin to get under ? |
| 19 | It takes me a while to get there . |
| 20 | tomorrow night Swindon have a chance to get even nearer the top of the table … they 're at home to Birmingham City … while Oxford are chasing a place in the next round of the cup … they 're at home to Swansea in a third round replay … |
| 21 | Now Sherry has a chance to get even . |
| 22 | A CHANCE to get away from election fever on Thursday is an invitation to join ramblers on a special walk to mark the 75th anniversary of Selborne poet Edward Thomas 's death . |
| 23 | Er I th I think er y I think you should give yourself a at least a week without it to get the a chance to get away . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're going to throw away a chance to get away from the ship for a while ? |
| 25 | Give it a chance to get there . ’ |
| 26 | And we 've never had a chance to get together all the evening . ’ |
| 27 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 28 | ‘ She is n't important , never was important — except that she gave me a chance to get close to you again . ’ |
| 29 | Take hour and a quarter to get home . |
| 30 | The use of a problem-orientated approach assists a therapist to get away from a purely medical or diagnostic approach because problems of a personal , social , medical , and psychiatric nature should all be included . |