Example sentences of "that he get [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Not that he gets much sleep these days , being kept busy by a multitude of projects , which include running Centrestage records , putting together a live disco band , and releasing his own material like the Lifeforce ‘ Disco Fever ’ EP , which sold out its first pressing in one day .
2 Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened
3 I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea .
4 I said , I was thankful that he got here safe and I ca n't drive .
5 It was amazing that he got away with it .
6 It seems to me highly likely that the killer had locked himself in and that he got away during that fifteen minutes . ’
7 He was behind that very nasty business of the Indian Ocean Bank — that was the nearest he got to coming unstuck , but the thing was so complicated with nominees in the Caribbean and nominees of other nominees in Hong Kong that he got away with it .
8 Rain saw only that he got there first and Harbury was left holding out the wine glass .
9 One of his chief claims to fame was that he got about thirteen kids , you know , , but a very very capable bloke .
10 David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ .
11 Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third .
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