Example sentences of "they [vb mod] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 2 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 3 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 4 | Burdened by the fear that some ‘ performance ’ , of which they feel incapable , is expected , and therefore that their ‘ manliness ’ is threatened , they may get so miserable and anxious that they realise their worst fears , by becoming unable to have an erection and then hiding behind the idea that ‘ I 'm an old man now , so what can I expect ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They must get frightfully bored , standing there beckoning all day , ’ mused Bernice . |
| 6 | They must get very discouraged . |
| 7 | In early retirement older workers have a socially acceptable alternative to the stigma of unemployment , that is not available to younger people ( Bruche and Casey 1982 : 112 ) ; but first they must get close to pension age . |
| 8 | These people that have to listen to these tapes you know , they must get terribly bored must n't they ? |
| 9 | Tell 'em they should get away with ten bob a week on this one . ’ |
| 10 | If hon. Members know that there is to be a Division at 10 o'clock , they should get here well on time . |
| 11 | Last year the government said pay review bodies should encourage moves towards merit pay for the groups they covered and that they should get together with management and staff to produce a PRP system . |
| 12 | He was polite but distant after that for the rest of the week , and there was no suggestion that they should get together in the evening or over the weekend . |
| 13 | Well , that 's their problem , they should get more bloody buses . |
| 14 | They 'll get just one week 's pay per year of service — the state minimum . |
| 15 | Stefan Holland and Teresa Brain have been told they 'll get just two hundred and ten pounds to make the place habitable . |
| 16 | But , I was saying to Tracy , I ca n't see the point of going just to have a row , because that 's all it 'll end up , I do n't think they 'll get anywhere by having a meeting , I think they 'll just row . |
| 17 | That way it 's though they 'll get close to what they need |
| 18 | The final text substitutes waistcoat for frock-coat — ‘ I do n't think they 'll get as far as taking my waistcoat off ’ — even better for the pampered softy with his vein of oldwomanish guile . |
| 19 | ‘ I can guarantee they 'll get inside . |
| 20 | So you know , in time of crisis , I mean if it goes any cheaper , they 'll get less and less money . |
| 21 | and they 'll get very worried , and it 's quite a difficult area because you have to be on the look out for something that 's not right , but you do n't want people to get er very worried because those feet are going to be very mobile and doing non walking thing until the child walks , they 're also very fat and podgy are n't they little babies ' feet ? |
| 22 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 23 | There was still a chance they might get away with it . |
| 24 | This debate was an earlier version of the ‘ do n't write it down because of the danger of judicial review ’ scenario : ‘ Do n't let care managers tell users and families how much the SSD can afford , because they might get away with paying less ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Only I think they might get just a bit mixed up . ’ |
| 26 | Mind you , when things start moving in a certain court case , they might get even more expensive . ’ |
| 27 | They might get really trigger-happy . ’ |
| 28 | All right , you might find everything that crawls in the yard an' they might get as far as downstairs here and there , but not up here . |
| 29 | So tha tha at that time , I mean they might get as much as three pound for mooring one ship up . |
| 30 | They might get less . |