Example sentences of "in [noun] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the legal tangle surrounding ‘ culpability ’ was never really unravelled : no eye-witnesses , contradictory evidence on possible mechanical faults , discrepancies about the time recorded for the breathalyser test — these factors resulted in Kemp getting away comparatively lightly , being banned from driving for three years only , with what must have seemed to many the derisory fine of only four hundred pounds . |
| 2 | The bozo in pyjamas gets there first . |
| 3 | When Telford Development Corporation began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes , a group of countryside wardens , foresters and a lecturer in 3D-design got together and decided that something should be done with the waste timber . |
| 4 | ‘ Since you left , I 've been too busy in my work in town to get too involved here , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Inquiries in Stepney got nowhere . |
| 6 | At this special time families in Colombia get together for the celebrations . |
| 7 | This is a direct reference to this technique , which was written in the old days of long boats , but as the boats in use get still shorter this steering effect reduces and the ease of veering off course increases . |
| 8 | I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up . |
| 9 | Abandonment of the reform programme would probably result in hyperinflation getting completely out of control followed by economic breakdown , default on loans and an attempt at mass emigration by an impoverished population towards Central Europe . |
| 10 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |
| 11 | Do you think it 's possible the Iraqis here living in this country could have some of these nerve gases that they could explode if the situation in Iraq gets very bad ? |
| 12 | Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there ! |
| 13 | We as magistrates do try and be consistent in our sentencing er throughout the country , I think it 's beholden on the police to be consistent in their approach to offenders , as well , and it seems quite wrong that someone in Folkestone gets away with doing something with a guy in Wigan er goes before the court . |
| 14 | All for now — in haste to get 5pm mail . |
| 15 | I think what I personally think what you need is a coordinator in Glasgow , a coordinator in Edinburgh to get together with a general coordinator who 's going to cover Perth , Stirling |
| 16 | In 1879 Pearce , the Owen cousins , and the Rev. Samuel Smith of St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London got together and established the Winchester Diocesan Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission . |
| 17 | If the surrounding web of reality which we perceive is partly true and partly false , then in order to get closer to the truth some things need to be doubted so that others can properly be believed . |
| 18 | Italy 's greatest modern industrialist , Enrico Mattei , used to have to take to the air in his private jet in order to get away from the telephone and think . |
| 19 | It is as if the dead person had killed themselves in order to get away and as a punishment . |
| 20 | He and Bob were rushing to get a whole day 's work done before lunchtime , in order to get away for poor old Eddy 's funeral in the afternoon , when a woman called Samantha Lightbody rang from the BBC . |
| 21 | Is there any chance that he 's done a moonlight in order to get away from money problems ? ’ |
| 22 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 23 | You want advice , help , diagnosis , money , or any number of other things , and you should be in command of the situation in order to get exactly what you want out of it . |
| 24 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 25 | That bag of vagabonds had to grasp what they had to do in order to get there , which included discipline . |
| 26 | It it would take you days upon days , in order to get there . |
| 27 | However , this must have been countered by an urgent request from Butcher as two days later Miller sent his servant with a note , agreeing to meet at Bedford House by four o'clock in order to get as far as St Albans that evening . |
| 28 | Instead of building massive shops which can be reached only by car , they rent small , cheap sites on street corners in order to get as near to customers as possible . |
| 29 | Could use Eleanor in order to get close to Jessamy . |
| 30 | Even in order to get this far , I had to believe that what I was being told by people about their experiences and feelings was the truth , or essentially the truth . |