Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the signing of the gas sales contract , the first contracts for detailed plant design and for procurement services have been agreed and LASMO 's Karachi office is now gearing up to get Kadanwari gas on stream at the beginning of 1995 . |
| 2 | I was alone here night after night , and that sports car just kept driving up to get you . |
| 3 | Right , now we 're walking up to get our bags |
| 4 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 5 | Nor was there any notice explaining how to get dental treatment on the National Health Service . |
| 6 | They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'd never be so desperate for you , Travis McKenna , that I 'd stoop so low ! ’ she cried and pushed herself to her feet , wanting only to get out of there . |
| 9 | ‘ A group of men meeting together to get drunk and cavort with women ? |
| 10 | ‘ I felt like I was escaping just to get in , ’ he reflected after his taxi failed to turn up and he got a lift from a receptionist at his hotel . |
| 11 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 12 | He 's engaged and they 're saving up to get married , but Helen and him thought it 'd be better to buy one now because they 'll have a lot of expenses after they 're married and wo n't have Helen 's wages . ’ |
| 13 | I presume you 're saving up to get married as well as helping your mother ? |
| 14 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 15 | USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side . |
| 16 | ‘ I really have n't had a chance to press my claims and I sincerely believe I am pushing uphill to get back into the side for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 18 | These findings may reflect survival bias , with severe disease resulting in lack of qualifications and premature death , the survivor population going on to get higher qualifications . |
| 19 | People are flooding in to get the exceptional bargains on offer , ’ said a House of Fraser spokesman . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll see if I can get tickets , ’ was all he offered before kissing her sweetly on the mouth and going inside to get some paperwork together for the meeting with his lawyer who was driving out from Palma to see him . |
| 21 | I 'm going down to get her breakfast . ’ |
| 22 | Because literally you 're only going in to get his contract his money and his copy and off you go . |
| 23 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 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 | Later I watched as the white cliffs of Dover diminished in the ship 's wake , before going downstairs to get some sleep . |
| 26 | The alternative of deciding not to get involved in any but the most obvious and serious cases means that an enormous amount of damage can be done by each and every suffering individual both to himself or herself and to the Company while he or she progresses inexorably towards becoming a " serious case " . |
| 27 | ‘ I was going home to get a new hearing-aid . |
| 28 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 29 | Rob the Grinder ‘ ran sniggering off to get change and tossed it away with a pieman ’ , DS 38 . |
| 30 | I think this whole thing of racing off to get divorced at the first snag you hit seems pathetic . ’ |