• Recently I have been getting a serious pain on my left side.
• I had gotten my life's fair dose of suffering.
• I was getting a really bad sensation in my fingers and it felt like I was walking on gravel.

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• However, down the street a further two if not three disabled parkers had also got fixed penalty tickets.
• If he had an ounce of honour he would walk, and consider himself lucky that is all the punishment he gets.
• If caught what punishment will they get, so many hours, be a good boy, don't do it again till next time?

• She felt like she was getting a thousand diseases just from their second-hand smoke.
• He has fears about the risks of getting more serious asbestos disease.
• It is like an injection, as when someone gets lumbago and receives a shot.

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• We got the ladder and brought it back around the front with intentions to leave it on the patio, which is enclosed.
• It was understood that when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door.
• Someone from reception gets the resuscitation kit and calls the other two doctors consulting that evening.

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• Only come out in the early morning when no one is up to get breakfast.
• She'd been getting the same lunch every day for nearly two years now, and she never tired of it.
• Making the fresh soda bread, getting the dinner, and doing her housework was her joy.

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• You get kids throwing bricks at windows all the time, but you don't go out and kill them.
• If you say anything to them you get abuse thrown back at you and it's becoming a disgusting area.
• We still get people who have no interest except that they are having something for free.

• The transport system in Kingston isn't so bad that getting the bus or train is not an option.
• At the last minute, Keith decided not to get the train and instead got a later metro.
• Further down Oxford Street we got a Victoria Line train from Bond Street to Euston.

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• Add 3 + 9 + 3 to get 15.
• In the first two expressions, she multiplied before dividing, getting 9 as an answer for the first expression and 6 for the second.

• Lost my cell phone, but you can still get me at my landline.
• She called him at home, but got his wife instead.

• Get the door for me will you, please?
• In the meantime, make a rule that if you will always take out the trash, she will always get the phone.

• Get you, having breakfast at ten thirty am.
• Ooh! Get her! Want to be left alone, love?

• Are we surprised that the message from sensible speeches gets drowned out when appeals to the basest fears of a crowd always bring the loudest cheer?
• He got robbed at gunpoint in Mexico.
• The president seems weirdly ignorant of how stuff gets done in DC.

• Depending on the number of people there we'll limit the number of things I'll sign, in order that everyone gets something signed.
• It said it would press the contractors to get the Bilbrough work completed as soon as possible.
• We do move heaven and earth to try to get the post delivered at least the next day.

• And if you could get him to nip round with a feather duster, I would be most grateful.
• At the end of the day, there is nothing like a good old British tragedy to get us to rally round and buy some papers.
• The latest scam is to get us to sign a contract agreeing to longer shifts to cover up for staff shortages.

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• I got to meet him first hand and to know him a little bit in the short period of time.
• Sue had been perfectly outraged that Astrid had gotten to go meet Ian first.

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• I can't remember how our friendship got going, but before we knew it we were thick as thieves.
• Let's get moving.
• We didn't go out on dates as such but we met up and we got talking.

• It came as a relief to his conscience as Jake moved, trying to get back on his feet.
• Women have fought long and hard to get into positions that men hold within the leadership of the church.
• There isn't much room, and you have to wait for everyone to get into position before you hit.

• In just over an hour, however, they succeeded in getting the pontoons into place and began the inflation process.
• How are we going to get the animals across the river?
• I said hello and took his arm, while his daughter took the other, and we managed to get him to the top of the steps.

• His vision was blurred and his speech was getting so that hardly anyone could understand him.
• It got so I couldn't come back from my trips empty-handed.

• Another guy came up at me and he took a swing and got me in the arm.
• I was going to get him in the nose but when he saw my fist coming he moved.
• I got him on the neck, but it was a lucky shot.

• We get our enemies and punish their crimes, but the crimes of our friends go unpunished.
• You little rat, I'll get you for that!
• Anna has troubles of her own - including a little brother who's out to get her.

• Be glad that I'm busy writing at the moment, because if I wasn't, you'd get it!
• What a waste when somebody gets it and it ain't even their fault.

• But as one Pennsylvania retiree put it, ‘We refuse to accept this concept of ‘you got yours, now back off.’
• ‘Hey,’ they hiss at us now, ‘I got mine, you get yours - adios chump.’
• That would be the ‘I got mine, pull up the ladder school of government’, which sadly seems to be the dominant perspective these days.

• What really gets me is how insipid the parents are.
• How much has the fact that your game slipped over the past year been burning you inside? Deeply. It gets me.

• What is an annuity? No, you got me there.

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