Example sentences of "get as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shooed him , and the old man , laughing now , obeyed her , saying , ‘ You 're gettin' as bossy as your dad . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 3 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 4 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 5 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 6 | When classifying fossils even more care is necessary because we have not got as much evidence to go on as with living animals . |
| 7 | I 've got as good a nose as any other man on the paper , even if I do specialize in science . |
| 8 | Got as far as a Smegma , Arizona , where the left front wheel on my truck decided it was time for a vacation . |
| 9 | Having got as far as the inverted stage , the easiest answer is to pull the stick back and perform a ha If loop to recover ( again , that 's why you needed lots of height ) . |
| 10 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 11 | ‘ The wickets have n't got as much pace , and the light is different . |
| 12 | ‘ At only 30 , I still feel I 've got as few years left and my family and I would like to stay in England . |
| 13 | He 's got as good a chance as any of the other challengers , and better than most . |
| 14 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 15 | Surely it was enough to have got as much as she had . |
| 16 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 17 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 18 | Argos can offer goods at lower prices than its High Street competitors because it has n't got as many overheads . |
| 19 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 20 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 21 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 22 | The highest rating was £100 a year , the next 100 marks , which was equated with ‘ other ’ landowners of £100 , the implication perhaps being that the latter had not yet got as far as quartering their arms . |
| 23 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 25 | In the four years 1522–5 the King may have got as much as £100,000 per annum from forced loans and subsidies , but his foreign adventures were brought to a sudden and ignominious halt by the refusal to pay the ‘ amicable grant ’ . |
| 26 | It 's got as many keys on it as an I B M erm |
| 27 | It 's got as much to do with personality , character , how you project yourself . |
| 28 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 29 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 30 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |