Example sentences of "get [adv] [conj] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Or perhaps he was the compromise candidate who got in because neither of the two senior cardinal bishops was acceptable to the other party 's supporters .
2 DESIGNERS from both companies got together and half a joint exhibition of paintings in the Dick Institute , Kilmarnock which ran from 20th March-10th April , 1993 .
3 She 's made me think , think differently about … about gettin' on an' that , betterin' mesel' .
4 Oh I got more than that actually I got about ten p .
5 brought the green one home cos I brought the three samples home , the one that we 've got down and another one and another one for the hall and stair , but I said I 'm sure it was n't the same as that , but it might have been , but I have to say he always said we would
6 I think there must be another box of these and they 've sort of got in and that seems to have got in the wrong box .
7 Its twenty five years since the folk rock band Fairport Convention first got together and this year they 're planning a few suprises , but one of the stars will be missing .
8 You see the message had obviously got through because that
9 Yeah I know , you know , really to I do n't know what we 've got downstairs if any
10 ‘ We 've got more than enough time to worry about that , Tim , and I 'm sure the bank will cover us . ’
11 But I like to be independent as much as I can , and they 've got more than enough to do with the people that ca n't help themselves .
12 Instead we get a pornographic fascination with violence ( in a society that 's already got more than enough of the real thing , thank you ) ; hatred and fear of women and gays ( ditto ) ; and an aesthetic based on absolute infantile self-absorption .
13 I 've got more than enough to do .
14 They crept up the stairs but ca n't have got more than half way up when our cat , Pete , came scurrying down followed by the chopper and the lump of wood .
15 Books were got out but little was done .
16 ‘ Do you think any of the cows would have got out or any of the hayricks caught on fire ? ’ asked Shirley , who was rather taken with this idea .
17 Well naturally I was I was raving wild when I got up and that 's well the lads I thought they were going to turn the van over tell you the truth .
18 So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do .
19 It 's just I 'd like tae know — ye know , how she 's getting on and that . ’
20 It was getting long an' all .
21 The opposition in front of us is getting less and less as we advance .
22 Someone usually gets in while this is going on , and puts the turf into neat heaps .
23 Brownies and Guides get together and each group entertains the others as part of the Programme
24 ‘ Well , we must be getting downstairs or those poor men will think they 're never going to get that glass of sherry , ’ said Ianthe more lightly .
25 And young actors have a greater instinct these days for film than they do for the stage , though this is not to say that stage training is not equally important ; nevertheless as working actors we are getting more and more camera conscious in our acting and will continue to do so .
26 ‘ We have a part-time rep on the Orkney mainland , and we are getting more and more work from there , ’ says Hardcastle , a part-time clerkess at the local school .
27 But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them .
28 OK : one more when we get home and that 's all before bedtime , he thought , facing the fact that bedtime was probably all too literally what she had in mind .
29 It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down
30 All she 'll do , is she 'll sleep through to , she 'll sleep through to like six , and then get up and that 's it for the day .
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