Example sentences of "they [adv] get " in BNC.
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1 | Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway . |
2 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
3 | Bruce Tigwell says … the skill of it he says is being able to read the ground and go over bumps as quickly as you can … there are more skills in this than any other form of motoring … he says it 's fun motor sport and very friendly but the competition is still high … you can not buy the vehicles off the shelf you have to make them … top speed is 115 miles an hour but they rarely get the chance to go that fast |
4 | This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else . |
5 | This left West Indies to make 93 , and early on the fifth morning they duly got there , having lost three wickets to Emburey and Edmonds , both of whom bowled well throughout . |
6 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
7 | Well , they eventually got their chance , during a rest day at the Monte Carlo Open . |
8 | They eventually got them off me with baby oil , and almost took my fingers with them . |
9 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
10 | At least half a dozen six-figure offers for Jodami have been rejected , and Beaumont said : ‘ They eventually got the message he was not on the market . |
11 | That parents feel physically comfortable when they eventually get into classrooms is important too . |
12 | And when children over-regularize their systems , how can they eventually get rid of the over-regularizations ? |
13 | If the adventurers free the man , they only get attacked for their pains ; he is actually a Doppelganger . |
14 | And all the firms are claiming that they only get their hardwood from government erm replanting programmes . |
15 | They only get dirty , greasy and in the way . |
16 | It responds to requests from those countries and , usually , they only get what they ask for . |
17 | His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months . |
18 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
19 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
20 | Nowadays they only get sales like that if one of the Philharmonic Orchestras is in residence round the corner at the Barbican . |
21 | They only get your skin clean ma . |
22 | cos they only get what they paid . |
23 | They only get hundred pound do they ? |
24 | Oh do n't worry about putting them in piles , they only get chucked in the bottom of the box |
25 | And they only get advantage of getting |
26 | But when companies are fined for breaking the health and safety laws , they only get fined a pittance , compared to what damage is caused to employees through companies ' neglect and law breaking . |
27 | She said they only got the men in when it went wrong . |
28 | A British embassy official wrote to the Foreign office , " It seems that they only got a fourth-floor berth at the Excelsior … because some Persian industrialist vacated his suite . " |
29 | No but they did n't use it for they did n't have a license then , they only got a license after the war you see . |
30 | I was reading a scum book at the weekend and in it Fergie was saying how Martin Edwards had cut Leeds down to 1 million for Eric the Fled by saying they only got him for 800k . |