Example sentences of "get [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off . |
| 2 | He just got on and obeyed . |
| 3 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 4 | Then I got on and saw all those people and thought ‘ Hold on , they 're just folk ’ , and I had a really good sing-song . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Then , when we realised and accepted the situation , I just got on and helped him with his fight . ’ |
| 6 | I got on and did my job , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It has to be said that the world would be a much better place if we just got on and did things instead of waiting for other people to do them on our behalf . |
| 8 | She just got on and did it . |
| 9 | Here a young couple got on and tried to find a couple of seats which were situated together preferably away from everyone else . |
| 10 | They got down and looked at him . |
| 11 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 12 | The horse came to a stop before the porch , and the old servant got down and lugged her portmanteau out of the boot . |
| 13 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 14 | Charles got in and slammed the door . |
| 15 | He got in and pressed the button for the first floor . |
| 16 | And eventually they got in and went off . |
| 17 | I got in and said , ‘ Take me home . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I came to tell you something , but no one was here so I got in and took a look . ’ |
| 19 | as if in a trance , Vincent got in and sat down beside him . |
| 20 | I got in and sat down . |
| 21 | Then she got in and sat beside him , her shopping bag on her lap . |
| 22 | As we got in and set off he said to me , ‘ Have you ever seen Bulawayo ? ’ |
| 23 | Of course , robbers got in and stole his jewels ! |
| 24 | Ella came here the day after I got in and cried her eyes out . |
| 25 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 26 | She got in and held the door-open button . |
| 27 | ‘ One man got in and tried to strangle him but I pulled him off , ’ he said . |
| 28 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 29 | To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory . |
| 30 | The defender said : ‘ When we lost 5-0 at Liverpool a couple of weeks ago we all got together and had a heart-to-heart . |