Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [conj] get " in BNC.

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1 family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep
2 Go and get my down and get a bit more room .
3 And despite , you know , managed , he somehow he 'd get them through and get .
4 Taking controlled deep breaths will calm you down and get you into a more relaxed rhythm rather than a state of uncontrolled panic .
5 It 's rocking , it 's adventurous and it 's got a wicked hookline that goes : ‘ Break you down and get your head to the groove ’ , a perfect piece of advice .
6 She says a massage will help loosen you up and get the blood flowing normally and warm up those aching muscles .
7 Then we 'll begin with some limbering-up exercises , to loosen you up and get you accustomed to the skis .
8 Got to show people they can nae f*** you about and get away with it .
9 And so you get these , these somewhat stupefied er or one over the eight wasps rolling around , er and er you know , not , not being terribly active , but that , that is the time at which of course people do tend to tread on them or pick them up and get stung .
10 This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third …
11 And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them .
12 Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it .
13 Just write them out and get used to writing them .
14 When he saw they were addressed to areas where letters have been intercepted and stolen cards used by thieves , he decided not to send them out and got in touch with the Fraud Section .
15 its really cold , yeah oh that was good , I enjoyed that she 's still there , she 's a Lance Corporal now as well and I must admit well I , I did n't think she 'd ev , she was always crying but I never thought she 'd actually do very well in the T A , did n't seem to have the get up and go about it but she obviously sorted herself out and got , Spambo Man they called me .
16 Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told .
17 I also crapped on about coming from Oxford and smiled winningly at the girl behind the gril in an effort to win her over and get our fax snuck to the top of the pile , but so far it does n't seem to have helped , ca n't think why &- }
18 What it is you have a bit of a power twist that easy and of course that 's embarrassing so when John met Maggie he thought well I ca n't twist her over and get stuck in there .
19 Her head and hands were bleeding and the manager picked her up and got her away .
20 when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down
21 and , he 'd got her up and got her ready and sent her out and said he would n't come .
22 Mr Shreeves said : ‘ Ray Clemence , our goalkeeping specialist , worked with Ian in training this morning to straighten him up and get his head up again .
23 And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone .
24 This was to sharpen him up and get him fitter apparently .
25 But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming .
26 ‘ I simply rang him up and got you an evening off . ’
27 ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum .
28 Wendy tried to call him back but got no reply .
29 He plonked it on and got his first four .
30 Somebody offered him five million , the owner of it , and he turned it down and got ten million .
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