Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no A-levels or 0-levels and although I once got a hearty handshake for my English book from a kindly Mr. Pickering at Abbeydale School , I seemed to get the cane for almost everything else . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't credit that I just got bored ? ’ |
| 3 | His ring record alone demanded the attention of the BBBC and he believed that : ‘ It was through public opinion that I eventually got a title . |
| 4 | But I realize , as I sit here in the offices of the Strategy Unit , away from my usual desk and my usual routine , and charged with scrupulous self-examination , that I look forward to being interrupted , and that I also get a certain satisfaction from these sighs and clickings of the tongue . |
| 5 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 6 | And the fact that I soon got away from it . |
| 7 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 8 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 9 | a bit too advanced , stuff that I never got and all of a sudden I was still saying I could do it and I could n't any more so I , took me ages to get rid of that reputation cos why I know about you see , I forgotten what fucking hard too get rid of it |
| 10 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 11 | No you say that I once got off with someone for some cigarettes , I never felt so awful . |
| 12 | But it is about ten years ago that I really got to work . |
| 13 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 14 | Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning . |
| 15 | ’ I shouted merrily , beginning to experience an ache somewhere near my bladder that I sometimes get when things are going particluarly badly and I ca n't see any way out . |
| 16 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 17 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 18 | I get into habits very easily , you see , so I soon got into the habit of coming here every night for dinner . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd run , and no one caught me , so I never got walloped or anything . |
| 20 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 21 | Once I actually got inside the privacy of the polling booth , a wave of doubt came over me . |
| 22 | ‘ And me almost getting to touch the hem of his robe . ’ |
| 23 | A long chase , and me never getting any further away . ’ |
| 24 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
| 25 | And I 'd say I was down the docks last night trying to rob the life-rafts , getting the first aid kits and trying to get the Omnopon and all that , and I nearly got caught , ca n't you help us out ? |
| 26 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 27 | So we agreed and that was it , and I just got down to having Sam . |
| 28 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 29 | ‘ I was a bomb aimer with the RAF during the war and I just got the urge to start writing , ’ he says . |
| 30 | ‘ My mates and I came up here one day when there was no English football , Christmas Eve I think , and I just got hooked , ’ he said at half time . |