Example sentences of "to get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So wills is what you 're going to get mostly . |
| 2 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 3 | At last you are ready to get properly started on your own personal health and fitness programme . |
| 4 | How anyone could have expected you to get properly well there I can not imagine ! |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 6 | I think he thought he was going to get somewhere with Ralph . |
| 7 | This is partly I suppose what made us seem like a destination to him ; he was in that simple sense ready to arrive , ready to get somewhere and rest there for the night . |
| 8 | To get somewhere for my caddying I felt I had to travel , and I left home for my first tournament in 1951 at St Andrews for the Amateur Championship . |
| 9 | But not to worry , we 're going to get somewhere tonight , so let's make a start , shall we ? ’ |
| 10 | Albert Camus watched young men and women stroll here in the style of Hollywood stars , but now it is a place where people pace quickly along , not to display themselves but simply to get somewhere else . |
| 11 | You hope to get somewhere towards there anyway . |
| 12 | So well I do n't hope to get somewhere anyway yes . |
| 13 | ‘ But I would like to get somewhere , ’ Alice explained . |
| 14 | I want to get somewhere , I do n't want to be a crook or thief all my life . |
| 15 | Obviously if you 're on your own , single , with nowhere to live , you have to have money and you have to get somewhere to live , so I turned to prostitution . |
| 16 | That 's because I needed to get somewhere . |
| 17 | He translated for us and it was only after he had argued our case with the Head of Austrian Customs that we started to get somewhere . |
| 18 | And er he says er he says , you know I 'll have to get somewhere to stay , is there anywhere where I could stay ? |
| 19 | If you want to get somewhere else , you must run at least twice as fast as that ! ’ |
| 20 | Rupert 's visitor , whoever she had been , was now leaving and he was giving her instructions how to get somewhere . |
| 21 | ‘ Were you by any chance in a hurry to get somewhere ? ’ he asked mildly . |
| 22 | it 's been cleaned with er windowlene , we do n't want you licking that in case there 's any traces on it , apart from the filthy mess you make of the window , right , there 's one coat on , are we at last beginning to get somewhere I ask myself |
| 23 | Could get the seven down cereal , we might be able to get somewhere . |
| 24 | In the next house you see I shall have to have different seating , they , they , I 'm going to , I 'm going to get somewhere smaller , so that three piece suite , it owes me nothing it only cost me what seven hundred pounds |
| 25 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |
| 26 | He 's in a rush to get somewhere ai n't he ? |
| 27 | Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there ! |
| 28 | They 're trying to get somewhere now with the police but it could have happened anywhere ! |
| 29 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 30 | ‘ I think perhaps they 'd begun to get rather fond of one another . |