Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years . |
| 2 | The Movietone cameraman zoomed in to get a close-up of the notice being fixed in place , a glimpse for the screens of a thousand Odeons and Regals from Aberdeen to Penzance . |
| 3 | He kissed the top of her head , and moved on to get a saucepan out of the oven . |
| 4 | I was never so self-assured again , though I rallied enough to get some good results in the School Certificate exams , and joined in enough activities — rowing , choir , dramatic society — to be dubbed as an all-rounder by the headmaster ( a description which brought jeers from my schoolmates ) . |
| 5 | I bent down to get my my night-shirt , it 's in my drawer with all my jumpers |
| 6 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 7 | It was common in Kenya for Masai to allow Kikuyu to cultivate a patch of ground within their grazing circuit in return for services rendered ; but administrators seeing this practice and not realizing its customary nature tried repeatedly to get rid of the Kikuyu and leave the Masai in undisputed possession of what they supposed to be their sole territory . |
| 8 | Shortly afterwards he left the licensed dealer which then tried unsuccessfully to get him sacked from the stockbroker he had persuaded to give him a job . |
| 9 | The journey took him to Harwich , then Norwich , where he tried unsuccessfully to get the medication he needed from the local hospital . |
| 10 | They waded out to get her . |
| 11 | Gazzer pushed himself painfully up on to all fours , peered around to get his bearings and scuttled , like a crab , past the swing-boats , down towards Mr Bishop 's kiosk . |
| 12 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 13 | Cantona tried hard to get involved , and within five minutes might have stolen the show , had it not been for a fine interception by Keith Curle following a fine run and cross down the left by Lee Sharpe . |
| 14 | And he tried hard to get involved even if his colleagues ignored some of the good runs he made . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the former Socialist Foreign Secretary , the Venetian Gianni de Michelis , who tried hard to get Expo2000 sited in Venice , is under investigation for corruption . |
| 16 | His teacher , Miss Poole , tried hard to get him to read . |
| 17 | He tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing . |
| 18 | Eddie tried hard to get your father to sponsor me , but he was n't interested . |
| 19 | today the two counties have been playing on in the championship and here 's how it finished … they tried hard to get a result but rain stopped play … and the game ended in a draw … |
| 20 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 21 | Whitlock thought of the Italian restaurant and moved closer to get a better look . |
| 22 | When he went up to bed he tried again to get the thing off , and so did his wife , but it would n't budge . |
| 23 | The Somerset establishment ganged up on them , wrongly accused them of being troublemakers , and one committee member tried shamefully to get them sacked from their newspapers . |
| 24 | When the kelp industry collapsed , the landlords , who had themselves set up the crofts in the first place , tried actively to get rid of them . |
| 25 | She faltered , and fought desperately to get her head together . |
| 26 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 27 | I came in to get it and found this same person using it . |
| 28 | ‘ He ran out when we came in to get you . ’ |
| 29 | He came in to get his bag . |
| 30 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |