Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 2 | It certainly seemed that a chapter of my life was closing , and I felt even more disgruntled when I found out that the other girls had all managed to get postings near their homes for their final few months in the Service . |
| 3 | Now when the was opened , er it was decided to er to put in a line , erm just near to connect with , and pick up some of the trade for the for Railway , cos the or the had already decided to get some from that end as well . |
| 4 | They had already tried to get him to mount a rescue mission using his ship . |
| 5 | Gharr had already tried to get me out of the way — probably thinking that Mala would collect it and her too . |
| 6 | And despite having had a good , healthy pregnancy , she had already started getting depressed : |
| 7 | He was annoyed and I had not wanted to get Frankie into trouble . |
| 8 | When Greg returned with the snowball , Margaret Seymour-Strachey had shifted her position so as to be better shielded from the rest of the Saloon Bar , and it was clear that she had not managed to get control over herself , for she was now sobbing away quietly . |
| 9 | Aidan Marron , defending Wishart and Drummond , said the men had not expected to get such a large haul . |
| 10 | Swallow explained ‘ They had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door . |
| 11 | He had always managed this part with success , but for some reason , he had always found getting the eggs out much harder . |
| 12 | I had always longed to get back to Abyssinia . |
| 13 | ‘ Drive anything , ’ said Gabriel , which was a complete lie , but she had always longed to get her hands on Rose 's car . |
| 14 | The eggs had all died before hatching , and Boulenger was led to question whether Kammerer had ever managed to get eggs to hatch at all , let alone re-evolve nuptial pads in adults . |
| 15 | How she had ever managed to get back to the Shelbourne , she did n't know . |
| 16 | Gilberto Nieddu was so small that it was n't clear how he had ever managed to get into the police force . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's the same in England , ’ I said primly , trying to recall if any of my relatives there had ever bothered to get married . |
| 18 | The things she had heard Jack say after a favourite that he had carefully arranged to get well stuffed , as he put it , promptly went and won . |
| 19 | He had also managed to get hold of , and copy , all Machin 's correspondence with Mattlock 's , his original publishers . |
| 20 | I mean it is it is genuinely part of the definition but the definition they had originally has got stretched and stretched so now it it does n't there 's no obvious tie up with oxidation , meaning burning and taking up oxygen , and reduction is the of opposite , so if you get the oxygen out or you put hydrogen in or where it gains electrons . |
| 21 | Mrs Sparsit 's great-aunt , ‘ an immensely fat old woman , with an inordinate appetite for butcher 's meat , and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years ’ . |
| 22 | Adam had often refused to get out , and Gran had had to pay for another ride . |
| 23 | She 'd known he 'd think that and that was one of the reasons why she had n't wanted to get into this conversation in the first place . |
| 24 | This was another reason she had n't wanted to get into this conversation . |
| 25 | She had n't intended to get her friend into trouble . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , we had n't intended to get married for a long time yet — there being so many drawbacks , ’ she began . |
| 27 | I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else . |
| 28 | Workmen on the site had tried to catch the under-nourished dog , but had n't managed to get anywhere near her — they all thought that she must have been very badly abused because she was so terrified of people . |
| 29 | Somehow it seemed to find its way into places where ordinary rain had n't managed to get . |
| 30 | We had n't managed to get any speakers this year but had all enjoyed the previous meeting in Oc in October . |