Example sentences of "we [vb past] get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First we would sit down and plan out our day ; second , we 'd decide what we expected to get out of each day , in terms of knowledge and experience ; third , we 'd go to work , and , finally , we 'd meet back at the house in the late afternoon . |
| 2 | We tried to get through and ask him the question on air . |
| 3 | ‘ We tried to get back but the waves were getting bigger . |
| 4 | We seemed to get on awfully well on the court , and we laughed together a lot during the game . |
| 5 | I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start . |
| 6 | After my divorce , we seemed to get along better for a while . |
| 7 | As we prepared to get off , our fellow passengers tried to tell us we were making a mistake . |
| 8 | We 'd got up with the rest at 4.00 am and stumbled , steep-blind on a starry night into stony darkness : another alpine day had started in night . |
| 9 | The stairs were just as wet and dangerous as when we 'd got on . |
| 10 | At Watford Gap , though , everything was fine , and a nice tea lady saw my shirt and asked how we 'd got on . |
| 11 | By the time we 'd got out of there I 'd received two ‘ love letters ’ from a couple of nine-year-olds and pocketfuls of poems and drawings . |
| 12 | No doubt you tried the same thing with him — implying that we 'd got along rather better than we ought to have ? ’ |
| 13 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 14 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 15 | But , once he realised that I was a bit apart from them , we started to get on well and wrote a lot together , coming up with new lyrics for ‘ Did You No Wrong ’ and beginning to find cover versions that would really establish our identity . |
| 16 | being on the railway and er , you see , er and of course I went then under his pass I suppose Mr and Mrs then and er and then of course we started to er when my parents first died we , we started to get around . |
| 17 | Well organised folks can book a permit to camp up to a year in advance , but we managed to get in despite having no permit when we arrived . |
| 18 | Yep , we managed to get in alright , pretty decent seats as well , even though it meant missing out on a few pints and getting there at 1o'clock . |
| 19 | We managed to get down to question No. 19 , and the hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) had already asked a question . |
| 20 | And we did get on reasonably well with the management then , u until we used to run into trouble of course , and er the er nineteen twenty one strike , I can vividly remember that , it was a glorious summer , dead against us nobody wanted any coal and it You had the It gave th the management the opportunity of selling all this All the old stock all the rubbish and everything . |
| 21 | we did get on together |
| 22 | ‘ South Africa must be worried how easily we did get through , and close to their line , because they know that Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott are amongst the quickest in the world . |
| 23 | ‘ We did get down and do the job ! ’ murmurs Ian . |
| 24 | " And if we did get out , what would we do ? " squeaked Lollo , my sister . |
| 25 | But just once — it was to be the last time — we did get back . |
| 26 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 27 | But we did get along all right . |
| 28 | The next day was hungover and quiet ; everybody wanted to know what we had got up to , and Girod told us that we would not be accompanying the section in town that afternoon . |
| 29 | I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met . |
| 30 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |