Example sentences of "get [adv] at [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well at least you got through at last , ’ said Carrington .
2 ‘ You get people in tears coming into the pub just because they have got here at last .
3 Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens .
4 Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored .
5 He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light .
6 After a long approach slog , reaching the crest of a ridge usually means you 're getting somewhere at last .
7 FIGURE 4 I 'm getting somewhere at last and feel quite happy .
8 ‘ Do you know , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ I rather think we 're getting somewhere at last . ’
9 Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry .
10 Was she getting somewhere at last ?
11 The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm .
12 but you know we , we might feel cold when we get in at first , oh we have n't been in long before it 's warm is n't it ?
13 Jean-Paul could feel himself getting hard at last .
14 ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning .
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