Example sentences of "he [vb past] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply , it was because , no matter how hard or how often he tried , he failed to get on too well with people . |
| 2 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 3 | When he failed to get in to Merchant Taylors , Iain was sent off to boarding school in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 4 | Already the Tans were running towards him , guns being waved menacingly in case he tried to get away . |
| 5 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 6 | He tried to get up but his leg was still hurting him badly . |
| 7 | He tried to get up , and fell over . |
| 8 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 9 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 10 | Philip knew he was thinking about the swimming , the way he objected to spending all his time training and how he tried to get out of it . |
| 11 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 12 | He knew , and he tried to get out of Poland . ’ |
| 13 | What really interested him , and what he tried to get across in lectures and in learned tomes , were the unities of plan , the homologies , to be found in the animal kingdom . |
| 14 | He 'd got away with it completely . |
| 15 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 16 | He 'd got away with it as a result of a little snooping I did on behalf of the concerned insurance company . |
| 17 | That did n't stop me from thinking bitterly that he 'd got away scot-free . |
| 18 | Ashton had shouted one last thing at him , but Steven had been too far away , breathing deeply , an expression of triumph on his face , He 'd got away from them . |
| 19 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 20 | He 'd got just tuppence ha'penny in his pocket for his beer , when they found him . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 22 | When he 'd got up and gone out , Dr Frome said to his wife : |
| 23 | Well he 'd got up and then . |
| 24 | And he he 'd got up to it and he gone good morning Trev about two inches away from it . |
| 25 | God knows what would have happened if he 'd got upstairs . ’ |
| 26 | Bus dri bus driver nearly we nearly hit the the thing nearly keeled over cos he did n't realize how many he 'd got upstairs and he went round the bend and it started to go . |
| 27 | So when I got there this morning he was still in his pyjamas he 'd got on quite well , all he wanted me to do was wash his face . |
| 28 | And er but this was a very determined man , everybody knew that , one of these , although he he 'd got probably er the the best factory in in the city . |
| 29 | The only way Eric could telephone me was by using a military line via Bologna and Vienna , which took hours on end , and even when he 'd got through , our voices were often unintelligible . |
| 30 | He 'd got there , and he was staying … |