Example sentences of "got [adv prt] [conj] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a young couple got on and tried to find a couple of seats which were situated together preferably away from everyone else . |
| 2 | ‘ One man got in and tried to strangle him but I pulled him off , ’ he said . |
| 3 | When he got through and began to speak he cheered up as he laughed and talked away , before becoming depressed at the end of the call . |
| 4 | When she reached her stop Maggie got off and paused to stare out over Glasgow Green , spotting the People s Palace in the distance . |
| 5 | Bob got up and began to put the things on the table for dinner . |
| 6 | She got up and began slamming the tea-things on to a tray . |
| 7 | Other guests now rose to leave and the two English envoys got up and began to move amongst the different groups . |
| 8 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 9 | She gave the back of her chair a despairing slap , got up and began pacing to and fro , jerkily shaking clasped hands . |
| 10 | And she got up and began to run across the room to her mother . |
| 11 | She got up and began walking round the kitchen , collecting a dirty cup here , a saucer there , putting them in the sink . |
| 12 | The forms in the waiting-room were most uncomfortable and at one period she got up and began to walk about , apparently to the consternation of other people who , docilely , were also waiting for news . |
| 13 | He was cold to the bone , and with the first faint grey of pre-dawn he got up and began to walk the passageway , stamping his chilled feet with an infinitely small , puny sound against the flags of the flooring . |
| 14 | She placed it within reach of his hand , then got up and began clearing the table . |
| 15 | She got up and began clearing the table . |
| 16 | She got up and stooped to reach the tap . |
| 17 | Rachaela got up and went to set out tins on the work-top in the kitchen . |
| 18 | ( 62 ) I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door ; and when I dared move , I got up and went to see . |
| 19 | Tom got up and went to sit beside her . |
| 20 | She got up and went to look outside . |
| 21 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 22 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 23 | He got up and went to stand by the tall , ornate fireplace where a fire had now been lit for the cooler evening to come . |
| 24 | But he got up and came blundering on towards them . |
| 25 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 26 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 27 | Then Noah got up and started to kick him from behind . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , but that means — if that desk light was on and I got up and started to accelerate towards it , the light goes blue . |
| 29 | He got up and started pacing up and down the room . |
| 30 | I got up and started to walk around . |