Example sentences of "i [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 2 | I am always hoping for something better from the right hon. Gentlemens although , alas , I rarely get it . |
| 3 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 4 | Nowhere did I expect to get and nowhere have I duly got . |
| 5 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 6 | When I eventually got downstairs she said to my Dad , ‘ Tell him his breakfast 's in the oven if he wants it . ’ |
| 7 | Already I had had presentiments of the satisfaction I would feel when I eventually got the bag home — the huge relief as I unpacked my treasures . |
| 8 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 9 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 10 | His ring record alone demanded the attention of the BBBC and he believed that : ‘ It was through public opinion that I eventually got a title . |
| 11 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 12 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 13 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 14 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 15 | I eventually got tired of the sad lady and the mantenuta and started once again to look for something different . |
| 16 | At first the beeves were indistinct masses , cold and blurry , but I eventually got a satisfactory materialisation . |
| 17 | I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months . |
| 18 | And so I went there and they er I eventually got on . |
| 19 | DRDOS seems to have drivers only for 286 and upwards machines but I eventually got EMM.SYS which was also to be found locked away in my ROM and got the machine to recognise the expanded memory . |
| 20 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 21 | So I phoned Mrs I eventually got through to her then I had to phone the prison to tell daddy because he was going to go in and erm I mean I , and then I go back to work , Grant . |
| 22 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
| 23 | John 's manner was off-putting to the faint-hearted , but as I slowly got to know him , realised his lack of physical and social grace covered an ultra-soft centre , and I came to love the man . |
| 24 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 25 | I rather got the impression that they would take him er , er , continue interest in what would happen , I 've got the impression they have a representative here to give their view of how it was er |
| 26 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 27 | I all got , I all got , no . |
| 28 | I all got , I all got , no . |
| 29 | It was sweet of you to go ; I just thought I better get something but once these attacks start it 's a bit too late to take anything really . |
| 30 | " Maybe I better get Mr. Mendez , " I said . |