Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'opes as 'ow you 've got some pennies for me , so as I can get meself a bed for the night . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's funny 'ow it managed to get under me hat . |
| 3 | For years whenever I 've got out of bed in the middle of the night — about whatever pursuit you get out of bed in the night for — my right ankle has made cracking noises , like kindling being snapped . |
| 4 | Other people seem to complain about their hangers multiplying whenever I 've got hangers disappear . |
| 5 | So whenever you 've got Xs and Ys and all sorts of strange things in there think just , it 's only a number . |
| 6 | ‘ Whenever you wish to get out of here I will come and fetch you , ’ he said quietly . |
| 7 | That doctrine of notice has got into the Common Law in one or two places , e.g. in the law about the sale of goods in market overt , and in the law of negotiable instruments ; but , broadly speaking , whenever you have got rights which depend upon notice , you may be pretty sure that you are in the sphere of Equity . |
| 8 | Whenever you want to get someone to do more of something be careful to use either or both of the types of reinforcement . |
| 9 | Try and encourage her , excuse me , try and encourage her to come and see you whenever she 's got a problem . |
| 10 | Some years earlier , Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ( the writers for comic artist Tony Hancock ) and Goon comedian Spike Milligan had established Associated London Scripts ( A.L.S. ) , an institution described by June Barry as ‘ a hot bed of writers , many of whom had offices in the house which they rented out to use whenever they wanted to get away from home or from the studios . ’ |
| 11 | Darren , at age 4 , had breath holding tantrums whenever he had to get dressed . |
| 12 | Well that 's how I 've got the corresponding dates . |
| 13 | That was how I 'd got used to it , at any rate , ’ |
| 14 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 15 | I thought it a bit off that she 'd never asked how I 'd got her pendant back . |
| 16 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 17 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 18 | That 's how I started to get into session music . ’ |
| 19 | Mother was really a good cook but that oven was not exactly reliable — indeed , I do not know how she managed to get such nice things out of it . |
| 20 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |
| 21 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |
| 22 | And her mind did n't question how she had got into this situation but how she was going to get out of it . |
| 23 | How she had got an ambulance . |
| 24 | It was several minutes before he had found the courage to ask her how she had got to the beach . |
| 25 | In her desperate condition , stuck on some rock of a planet without a trace of memory as to how she had got there , the drink felt pretty much like her only reason for living . |
| 26 | God knows how she had got hold of them , he thought . |
| 27 | Huy wondered how long she had been in the capital , and how she had got there . |
| 28 | Almost without knowing how she had got there , Folly found herself on the other side of the double doors , pushing through a curtain of leaves that shrouded the entrance . |
| 29 | How she had got that name no-one dared ask . |
| 30 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |