Example sentences of "they [verb] get [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean they could have rung yesterday that 's the trouble you see they 've got so many friends Good girl you fairly worked that bleeding money . |
2 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
3 | Now this is the time when you must watch them , because it can take from two to two days , two hours from two , two hours to two days to regain control of the brain , depending on the person and if it 's , happens outside and they want to get away , stress the fact you get up and run under a bus and they do n't mean to obviously |
4 | They 're just out of prison and they want to get high all the time and enjoy themselves . |
5 | Many employers , however , find that they want to get more involved than that . |
6 | The Humans were sitting a little way off ; Balor would hear them if they tried to get away . |
7 | Maybe they 'd got straight down to it . |
8 | Just when she thought they 'd got away from it , change and disruption had caught up with them again . |
9 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
10 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
11 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
12 | ‘ When Geoffrey rang last night , I assumed they 'd got more on him than that . |
13 | And er I got , they 'd got about twelve hundred members , and I think I got about a thousand , of course there were n't two of the men that knew and they voted . |
14 | ‘ When we were putting together our demos , ’ says singer Mike , ‘ we heard ‘ The Only One I Know ’ by The Charlatans and I was really pissed off because I thought it was exactly what we were trying to do … and they 'd got there first . ’ |
15 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
16 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
17 | He and his wife , Carole , had sat down with their business adviser and decided they needed to get away from traditional crops and livestock . |
18 | In spite of your good looks you put men off once they try to get close to you . |
19 | How did they manage to get this far into German-held territory ? |
20 | They managed to get away when they persuaded the man to stop for baby food . |
21 | Yet when they did get home their families remarked how much more outgoing they had become . |
22 | And they 're saying , if they do get away with knocking this money off |
23 | Two symbols are therefore used , S indicating a specialist technical contribution and E identifying the person responsible for seeing that they do get together . |
24 | ‘ Even if they do get inside — and there 's no guarantee that they will be able to do so — wo n't it be difficult to move around and see anything ? ’ |
25 | And then they start getting even more excited and go beyond that . |
26 | Once they start getting deeper into this trial , I 'm sure the interest in photographs of this sort will — ’ |
27 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |
28 | because er , they 've got both got very small noses and Hannah 's always talking like that you know |
29 | always , it sounds as if they 've got completely different personalities . |
30 | yeah but they 've got fucking , just fuck off with the dust |