Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he wanted to get well clear of the area . |
| 2 | perhaps he wanted to get in with her |
| 3 | I — ’ was all he managed to get out . |
| 4 | So he determined to get the better of him not by means of his own great power but by means of a trick . |
| 5 | So he has to get four fifty every Monday ? |
| 6 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 7 | Nevertheless he had to get something , and quickly , before the shops closed for lunch . |
| 8 | It took the whole of his crew to hold him ( in a table whilst I got a hacksaw and cut at least two inches off his fancy boots ; somehow he managed to get them restored . |
| 9 | Usually he likes to get you alone , as , I have noticed , a lot of Christians do . |
| 10 | ‘ The less you respond to him the more he tries to get to you — I know I can be a bit intense so it 's really good that he taught me to have fun at work and loosen up . ’ |
| 11 | Darren , at age 4 , had breath holding tantrums whenever he had to get dressed . |
| 12 | Hence he had to get an album out sharpish and also undertake a tour of some sort . |
| 13 | Hence he had to get an album out sharpish and also undertake a tour of some sort . |
| 14 | Really he wanted to get on with seeking to become a priest . |
| 15 | Now he needs to get rid of some . |
| 16 | When , infrequently , he wanted to write in ‘ some simple metre ’ , he did so ; but when more often he wanted to get away from standard metres , he left them behind altogether , no ghost of them lurking behind his arras . |
| 17 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 18 | Downes 's cheeks were very white , and slowly he started to get up from his chair . |
| 19 | Eventually he managed to get away to the continent , and when he was restored to the throne nine years later , the story of the King 's narrow escape seized the public imagination . |
| 20 | On internal British politics , Ken speaks for more than the Labour leadership might imagine , but when he leaves England for abroad he starts to get very muddled-up . |
| 21 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 22 | Then he started to get a bit violent , but not excessive . |
| 23 | And then he has to get up and go ! |
| 24 | Some of them have a lot of stuff , you know I do n't seem to ever get hold of the stuff me , to tables and that little Eric in there he seems to get loads of stuff |
| 25 | The papers paid attention to the detail of the knives and sawn-off shot guns he used to threaten and wound his victims , the hood he used to disguise his appearance , his ‘ lair ’ and other related aspects of how he managed to get away with his exploits . |
| 26 | God knows how he managed to get that out here . |
| 27 | The only thing I could n't discover was how he managed to get you out of Gloucester and marry you after all . |
| 28 | This guy I used to know , Babs Eadon , he told me of how he went to get a holiday job when he was doing a Masters degree . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |