Example sentences of "[adv] to get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not live far from the school so it did not take long to get there . |
| 2 | It does n't take long to get there . |
| 3 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 4 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 5 | Deep Ecology became fashionable among those affluent enough to Get Away From It All and pursue every kind of mystical belief . |
| 6 | You 're dark enough to get away with it . ’ |
| 7 | Rose did it well ; she was just young enough to get away with it . |
| 8 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 9 | One Harvard dealer an American boy , was fortunate enough to get close to this quickly By putting a wealthy client into some circumspect account trades , and so actually making him a lot of money , the dealer earned the client 's gratitude . |
| 10 | Once on the platform , if you are lucky enough to get there , you will be met , eventually , with logic-free announcements to explain why you are going to be ridiculously late for work or that important appointment . |
| 11 | Most bills never re-emerge from committee ; those that do may be altered beyond recognition , and during floor debate , on those lucky enough to get that far , changes are not usually made that go against the wishes of the relevant committee . |
| 12 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 13 | And now he longed only to get away . |
| 14 | Bathsheba wanted only to get away from him and his words . |
| 15 | She snapped the locks on the case , lifting it from the table , wanting only to get away from Luke Calder as fast as she could . |
| 16 | ‘ I sometimes … ’ she began , ready to lie her head off — only to get abruptly cut off before she could perjure herself completely . |
| 17 | The Hungarians and Belgians broke away from the Italians and the two British crews dropped back and were being closely tailed by Folkesson/Skoldbek at Chertsey although the Swedish crew were only to get as far as Shepperton before blowing up . |
| 18 | A man like that can always replace his front-line troops , so to get only them would have been pointless . ’ |
| 19 | Despite the fact that he had apparently not put himself out overmuch to get home , he was given a hero 's welcome in Polperro . |
| 20 | We also talk of ‘ doing research ’ when we investigate the history of a place we intend to visit , looking up information in travel guides and brochures , finding out how best to get there , what to avoid and how to get value for money . |
| 21 | It took him longer to get there after the performance but he was away from all the problems of the rest of the company . |
| 22 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 23 | Half an hour later : Z : " I could n't get a word in edgeways " , muttered as he managed finally to get away . |
| 24 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 25 | Evans took a taxi out to a forest just to get away from every islander asking him how much he liked the place . |
| 26 | " Wherever we settle down in the end , " thought Hazel , " I 'm determined to see that Pipkin and Fiver are n't sat on and cuffed around until they 're ready to run any risk just to get away . |
| 27 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 28 | It 's the politics did n't work got ta mention politics , it 's just to get away from politics . |
| 29 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 30 | But I am feeling better and my main concern is just to get well again . ’ |