Example sentences of "[conj] he [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he undoubtedly got his timescales wrong the basic inference was correct . |
| 2 | One friend told me that he regularly got 35 m.p.g. from a petrol-engined Land Rover . ) |
| 3 | Although his brother later made the excuse that it was too hot that day , late November , it seems far more likely that he simply got drunk . |
| 4 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should be flattered or otherwise , ’ her host drawled , and she decided on the spot that she hated men with sophisticated wit — was he saying that he took it as a compliment , or not , that he only got one mention at lunchtime ? |
| 6 | The server has an advantage in that he always get doubles to aim for , where his opponent must hit trebles . |
| 7 | It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell . |
| 8 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 9 | And then that 's another thing he always got something to eat which was a great help of those days , and especially if there was If mother was baking or anything like that he always got a scone or something , mhm . |
| 10 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And the fact that he never got a kick at Maine Road , and the sort of game he watched today , makes English football very attractive to him . |
| 12 | No , he told you that he definitely get it , eleven o'clock ! |
| 13 | Lord Cumbermound , a lucky gambler , had pointed out that he usually got good weather for his show . |
| 14 | We soon reach Hungerford and Rob 's bridge which is so low that he usually gets cramp from bending flat on the boat . |
| 15 | Most of Mr Nigel Lawson 's critics of today thought yesterday that his policies might bring something like the 3% growth in demand in 1988 at which he aimed , instead of the 7% that he actually got . |
| 16 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 17 | As they passed one of the Mason 's guards , they startled him out of dozing , and he hastily got up , cursing them and telling them not to go out of sight . |
| 18 | The sons are assembled for him , and he even gets a genetic guarantee of health . |
| 19 | Do mind the baby , children , oh dear , he always wants to join in and he invariably gets trodden underfoot — ’ |
| 20 | She said he asked her once or twice but she turned him down and he soon got the message . ’ |
| 21 | Harry Connick Jr has been saying that since the tender age of eight when he stole the show in his native New Orleans , and he just gets better and better . |
| 22 | So he 'll arrive about twenty to , quarter to eight , and he just gets dropped off . |
| 23 | you know , took an hour down and he just got that done , but I , I 've meant to ask him if those have made any difference , you know , having done in |
| 24 | forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ? |
| 25 | and he just got them in , real , there 's a |
| 26 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 27 | It had and he duly got down in two more for another of his safe pars . |
| 28 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 29 | And he never got into the pits , so Les and he was er was a very fine Marxist that he he he could tell you anything you know about Marxism . |
| 30 | It was in Burma that he caught some sort of fever and he never got over it ; he came home on leave and never went back . ’ |