Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd better get their act together first . |
| 2 | They 'd better get their act together first . |
| 3 | They 'd broken in and they 'd better get out . |
| 4 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 5 | The responsibility will now be theirs and they 'd better get on with it and better show things that they 've been arguing and get along . |
| 6 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 7 | They did not get far . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , even if they did not get it wrong , their discomfiture is a matter of concern for the whole market research industry , of which political opinion polling accounts for a small but very visible part of an estimated UK turnover of more than £300 million . |
| 9 | But they did not get more help from community nurses and they were less likely to be admitted to , or to die in , a hospital or hospice . |
| 10 | And then , supposing they did not get on ? |
| 11 | One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them . |
| 12 | And one in three of the women said they did not get enough respect from male superiors . |
| 13 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 14 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 15 | But they did not get in each other 's way : more than twenty miles of water lay between them and they drew their vigour and their sustenance from different parts of England . |
| 16 | They did not get their photographs signed , but they have had an exchange , a smidgen of repartee with a star . |
| 17 | If the new ministers took no action they would feel , perhaps with justice , that they did not get the quality of co-operation they were entitled to enjoy from their most senior staff . |
| 18 | As she was still at school , she had been assigned a tutor but this had stopped as they did not get on . |
| 19 | Of course , they did not get all that they wanted , but they will be back for more . |
| 20 | He said they did not get near enough to the 92-year-old Queen Mother 's third-floor room to pose a security risk . |
| 21 | AEEU 's regional officer , Alwyn Rowlands said workers are angry that they did not get a cost of living increase in April despite the company making a healthy profit . |
| 22 | When Mike Gatting and Co. disgraced cricket in 1987 they did no get fined . |
| 23 | Bold spirits in the satellite countries were able to take liberties at home ( Lutoslawski , Penderecki , Kurtag ) when they did n't get away in person ( Panufnik , Ligeti ) . |
| 24 | Alison , who runs a company specialising in marketing travel and tourism , has known Nick , an architect , for about 12 years , but they did n't get together until he became her lodger . |
| 25 | And they did n't get up and take a bow afterwards . |
| 26 | ( He was n't really lying — they did often think of it even if they did n't get down to it . ) |
| 27 | Under rubble in bomb-sites and they did n't get any nice flat stone with writing either . |
| 28 | The local Garda had been sent to Ashford Castle to protect Reagan , and they did n't get on with the CIA at all . |
| 29 | They did n't get a single bird between them . ’ |
| 30 | Make sure they did n't get in touch . |