Example sentences of "get [adv] and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off . |
| 2 | When Telford Development Corporation began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes , a group of countryside wardens , foresters and a lecturer in 3D-design got together and decided that something should be done with the waste timber . |
| 3 | And suddenly , astonishingly , astonished , she began to weep , great sobs bursting out of her , tears leaping from her eyes , a kind of howling noise in her nose and throat , and Charles got up and came and sat by her and took her in his arms as she howled like a six-year-old . |
| 4 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 5 | Get together and ensure that there is an agreed approach to be put to the local courts . |
| 6 | It 's very easy for young people to come into politics , full of enthusiasm and full up of get up get up and go and many of them get up and go after a few years . |
| 7 | I agree with what you 're saying , but we should also look at what we do , for instance David when you go out you virtually never divert your telephone , everytime you go out ten minutes later I get up and go and divert your phone for you , if we get into the habit of diverting our phones then we we would n't have that problem . |
| 8 | Get up and go and sit down . |
| 9 | Suddenly Odd-Knut gets up and asks if we would like to go dog sledging . |
| 10 | getting up and coughing and wheezing and all the rest of it and they actually slept very well last night . |
| 11 | ‘ Er — it 's not my secret , ’ Maggie said evasively , getting up and wondering whether to dive into the water and refuse to surface . |
| 12 | Intel needs to do some stroking among this class of customer even though Intel defenders claim the P5 schematics designers are using in the absence of silicon are so exact they should have little trouble getting up and running and out the door once the chips are delivered . |
| 13 | Going up the lane , she saw a car stop and Frank Conway quickly get out and turn as though awaiting her . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll look in when we get back and see if you need dosing with anything . |
| 15 | We understand why people do n't care for reporting , and it 's often because they 'd rather get on and drill or explore or sort out problems . |
| 16 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 17 | to get together and communicate that because it 's set down as target you 've got to do it so you will , you will set the time aside where it 's easy enough |
| 18 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 19 | When he asked what this meant , he was convinced that he was to get up and go and join the church planting team . |
| 20 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 21 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 22 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 23 | If the parent walks away or shuts the door on the child , the child may get up and follow and just start all over again . |
| 24 | They dreaded , and were yet painfully anxious , to get back and see whether the last caulking had given way . |
| 25 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |