Example sentences of "they got [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 2 | As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression . |
| 3 | You had to know your Instruction Book very well , because if you locked someone up and they got away with it , next day in court , there was a chance that you might be deemed excessive in your law and of course then you were on your own . |
| 4 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 5 | ‘ There were arms everywhere , pulling him back and tugging at his shirt , and they got away with it just about every time . ’ |
| 6 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 7 | They got away with it — that day and three more days in a row : each afternoon when she heard his whistle she stole out and crouched in the grassy fosse beneath the wall . |
| 8 | Nevertheless they did , and they got away with it . |
| 9 | Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year . |
| 10 | In the end , they got away with one pit stop to tighten a loose nut on the adjustable skates . |
| 11 | They got away with cigarettes valued at £200 . |
| 12 | They got away with only two statues and left the rest . |
| 13 | And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries . |
| 14 | I said , but other people let it go wrong and they got away with it . |
| 15 | Yeah they got away with murder there , that looked very very iffy whether it was offside , the linesman did n't give it , the really should have scored . |
| 16 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 17 | They got away on time . |
| 18 | ‘ I think they got away in another truck , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 20 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 21 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 22 | Although Gil Robles and a sincere ‘ Social-Catholic ’ minority within the CEDA were anxious to demonstrate their reforming credentials , and thereby to retain the loyalty of their own peasant supporters , with a programme aimed at converting rural tenants into property-owners , they got nowhere in the face of opposition from monarchists and the reactionary majority of their own party . |
| 23 | In general they got along with their new neighbours . |
| 24 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 25 | They called him a dunce at school , yet he knew all the words of the records on Sweetheart 's wind-up gramophone , and every song Buddie 's friends played when they got together with their instruments in the big downstairs room . |
| 26 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 27 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 28 | They got cautiously to their feet , surveying the wreckage and carnage . |
| 29 | Then they got very in er after two years after the was had started erm South of England got it badly you see . |
| 30 | They got there at half past six in the morning . |