Example sentences of "he [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he gets up and he goes get off ! |
| 32 | And the Chinese man goes an and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes get off of my boat ! |
| 33 | When he sees me he goes , he goes get out of my way , Jo . |
| 34 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |
| 35 | Could not believe he expected to get it through without having a formal appraisal system . |
| 36 | He expected to get the money back after the weekend . |
| 37 | It was the way he asked get a cloth , that 's what he was saying , I was howling . |
| 38 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 39 | He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily . |
| 40 | Simply , it was because , no matter how hard or how often he tried , he failed to get on too well with people . |
| 41 | When he failed to get in to Merchant Taylors , Iain was sent off to boarding school in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 42 | However little his lordship might think of Birmingham or a Birmingham man , he failed to get admission that night to the platform and was ‘ left swearing ’ . |
| 43 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 44 | Further , he failed to get satisfactory answers to questions which he asked pupils about the work in hand and why they were doing certain things . |
| 45 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 46 | She told the jury : ‘ I said to him , ‘ You are a married man , ’ but he tried to get on top of me . |
| 47 | He tried to get it marketed or patented but he never succeeded . |
| 48 | Philip knew he was thinking about the swimming , the way he objected to spending all his time training and how he tried to get out of it . |
| 49 | He tried to get a fix on it . |
| 50 | He tried to get everything to grow that he could . |
| 51 | He tried to get Nellie interested in all the arrangements . |
| 52 | Right below the press box he tried to get past Tambay and I could swear his wheels were n't more than inches from the pit-wall as he tried , and failed , to get by . |
| 53 | He was concerned that Clift 's continuing sessions with Silverberg were making him worse , and he tried to get Silverberg to commit Clift to Silver Hill Sanatorium for a hopeful cure . |
| 54 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 55 | He tried to get his battery razor to work but the batteries had leaked and gone all green . |
| 56 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 57 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 58 | He tried to get into the wrong car-park and was , inevitably , confronted by a Lord 's gateman who succeeded in making far from happy . |
| 59 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 60 | I followed him down the stairs , listening to him curse and shout ; in the front hall he tried to get a jacket on over his clothes but could n't get it to fit over his hand holding the gun . |