Example sentences of "she [verb] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she parted her mouth , her tongue parried the thrust of his and her breathing was agitated , almost desperate , as she fought to get closer to him . |
| 2 | The question was , of course , did she want to get away ? |
| 3 | She has set up her own training school because she found conventional training schemes offered no scope for the kind of message she wants to get across . |
| 4 | Even more unfortunately , the study door was open , and as she tried to get past without being seen Phena stormed out . |
| 5 | Although his may not sound much , after reading the book and getting to know the calm character of Mrs Aimsley , it comes as a big surprise when she starts to get very emotional and make irrational accusations to Imamu . |
| 6 | Maggie did , to be corrected on several minor points she 'd got slightly wrong . |
| 7 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 8 | Something else she 'd got away with . |
| 9 | The moment passed , her mother began talking about the late roses in her flowerbeds and Rachel was just thinking she 'd got away with not mentioning David Markham , when her father said , ‘ Talking of OBEX , we wanted to check the date of the Family Day with you . ’ |
| 10 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 11 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 12 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
| 13 | She 'd got so thin , dry and brittle , her coffin light , like it was empty . |
| 14 | She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room . |
| 15 | She could use the sugar she 'd got for building bricks for a new shed I reckon , the amount she 'd got there . |
| 16 | I had a row with her several times , but this once I said , why did n't she get out there and shift some bloody irrigation mats with me , and she just slapped her belly and said she 'd got too fat to bend . |
| 17 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 18 | Every time she vowed to get closer to Matthew , she only succeeded in driving him further away . |
| 19 | She began to get really angry . |
| 20 | It began to climb fairly steeply upwards , and she started to get rather out of breath . |
| 21 | She decided to get right on with her article and also to seek Ana out and make a friend of her . |
| 22 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 23 | She needed to get away and think things through , before the emotional burden toppled her control . |
| 24 | She needed to get away from here . |
| 25 | She struggled to get away but he pulled her towards him , laughing down at her . |
| 26 | But she was usually annoyed when she did get home . |
| 27 | Celia felt she had to get away , at once . |
| 28 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 29 | All she knew was that she had to get away from him before she betrayed herself . |
| 30 | She had to get away from here ! |