Example sentences of "was [adv] get the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is disappointing because he was just getting the hang of Wimbledon and he would have won if he had n't taken the knock at the first bend , ’ said Williams .
2 Mr Sandy recalls that the biggest challenge was just to get the name known in the major markets in Europe : ‘ Whether the message coming back was ‘ Unbekannt ’ or ‘ Pas Connu ’ the gist of it was that we were unknown and if you 're trying to sell whiskies people have n't heard of , then you have n't got much to go on . ’
3 Sunil was busily getting the machine to work .
4 As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal .
5 She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment .
6 The trick was then to get the newly-formed zygote back into the mother so it could attach to the inside of the womb and develop normally . ’
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