Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was somewhat reluctant to explain , but finally did so , although if the associative method that he used had got to the ears of his victims , it might have been embarrassing . |
| 2 | He 'd gone to get those tickets . |
| 3 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 4 | But he 'd managed to get to a phone near the toilets in the operations centre . |
| 5 | She 'd read Shakespeare , Pete had n't ; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school , which he 'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles ' Notes . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect he was planning to get his job back once he 'd managed to get rid of you … ’ |
| 7 | They got the impression that he was well into it but , in fact , it was only about a week before that he 'd started to get interested . |
| 8 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 9 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 10 | He 's a big guy , but he seemed to have got to like crying . |
| 11 | And he started clearing to get this slate , and he got at the slate quite quick . |
| 12 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 13 | Frank Jessop was in his late 60's when he started needing to get up three or four times each night to pass urine , and he was referred to his local hospital 's urology department . |
| 14 | ‘ So he kept trying to get a bit too intimate during the Veleta . ’ |
| 15 | It was only when Maisie emerged from the back kitchen , wearing her third headscarf of the morning ( this one was in Liberty print and made her look as if she was about to go out to watch titled men shooting grouse ) , that he felt emboldened to get close enough to hear what they were saying . |
| 16 | He did trying to get off the drink . |
| 17 | He watched the cars and buses and vans and trucks pass by him , and calculated how far he had to go to get to the next parked car which would shield him from them . |
| 18 | He would n't want to be disturbed and all he had to do to get out was draw the bloody bolt . ’ |
| 19 | He had hoped to get the award cancelled because his co-defendant , Nigel Watts had reached a separate agreement with Lord Aldington . |
| 20 | That was Sir James Campbell 's undoing in this section of his county , for he had undertaken to get the presentation for Bruce in order to oblige one of his friends who had accepted a nominal vote from him , but the friend , David Gourlay , was only a small heritor , and the bulk of the landed property in the parish together with the kirk session were firmly attached to Mr. Ure . |
| 21 | The trouble and expense he had gone to get himself on board looked increasingly ominous , I thought . |
| 22 | He had decided to get away from his chaperons and ask her to his hotel for the night . |
| 23 | He had decided to get Leila to put the girl under trance before they attempted any experimentation . |
| 24 | So bloody hard he had fought to get those streets behind him . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're mine ! ’ he said thickly , and she held his gaze in a moment of wild hope that he could feel the same , then remembered the fight he had had to get her , and the prizes he was now about to collect . |
| 26 | Yes , he had seemed to get the impression that something was awry . |
| 27 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 28 | He replied that he had tried to get an attorney to break the contract and that he had spoken to this lawyer and that lawyer . |
| 29 | When he was well into his eighties , one of his housekeepers complained he had tried to get her onto the bed — at his age ! ’ |
| 30 | Before the end of the summer term , he had tried to get more information about Abbotsfield from Richard . |