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 .
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