Example sentences of "we get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we got caught , of course , by this very Mr Snead coming in satirical German manner , even shining a torch , an English suburban stormführer . |
| 2 | For example : ‘ In 1931 we got a new P[arish] P[riest] . |
| 3 | I planned to switch them when we got here — just sleight of hand , you know . |
| 4 | ‘ But it was there when we got here , Miss . ’ |
| 5 | Jenny asked me as we got up to leave . |
| 6 | I fell in the brown water and fouled my frock , and the men never heeded , of course , but there was the devil to pay when we got home at night . ’ |
| 7 | As Layton said , ‘ I still regret that we got no encouragement from the CBC , because I think that we would have gone on to write plays . ’ |
| 8 | We got our Wadkin PK dimension saw from an auction five or six years ago . |
| 9 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 10 | The staff were polite but when asked why there was no sign on the shop door , we got a rather unsatisfactory answer . |
| 11 | ‘ Those people just had something special and we got to know them well , ’ Andrew said . |
| 12 | We got him from the RSPCA and he is my first dog . |
| 13 | The skipper , John Glennie , said he and his crew members ‘ needed a miracle , and we got one ’ . |
| 14 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 15 | ‘ We needed a miracle , and we got one , ’ said Mr Glennie , whose yacht , valued at about £87,000 and uninsured , represented everything he owned . |
| 16 | Eventually we got together to devise the patents and scale up the process . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 19 | It was disturbing to hear the manager remind questioners of what happened when he made ‘ sensible ’ experiments in Saudi Arabia late last year : ‘ We got a 1-1 draw and a nasty headline . ’ |
| 20 | We got what we wanted . |
| 21 | It was Goscinny who suggested changes until we got him just right . ’ |
| 22 | We got up . |
| 23 | It should therefore be no surprise at all that we got policemen and women to talk . |
| 24 | Imagine if we got it . |
| 25 | We got into the trench and listened to the swish as the salvoes passed overhead . |
| 26 | ‘ We got the first two ! |
| 27 | We both laughed as we got to our feet and cleaned out our mess-tins . |
| 28 | When we got home I was thrashed for making my mother ‘ look a fool ’ . |
| 29 | When we got out there were hundreds watching the blaze . |
| 30 | We got top West End variety acts . |