English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families
The Word "Get" in Example Sentences
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2964178	Tom couldn't get his car insured because he had had six accidents in three years, all of which had been his fault.	patgfisher
898497	Just when I was getting the hang of things, I was in a traffic accident and had to stay two months in the hospital.	CK
3251269	Mary was pleasantly surprised, when she got home from work, to find that Tom had already prepared the evening meal.	patgfisher
897923	This is a time of year when people get together with family and friends to observe Passover and to celebrate Easter.	CK
3322888	Tom always wanted to be a doctor, but his grades at school weren't quite good enough to get him into medical school.	patgfisher
1684	If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.	Nero
266812	When I got to the office, I had tons of work waiting for me. I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.	CM
239281	He seems like a softy on the surface, but at the core he's got an iron will that makes him an extremely tough negotiator.	CM
3269845	Tom and Mary are deeply religious and are horrified that their son wants to get married on a beach, rather than in a church.	patgfisher
3009023	When he got up to make his speech, Tom's mind went completely blank and all he could do was stand there with his mouth open.	patgfisher
3020384	Mary thought to herself that she ought to buy a new cover for the ironing board since the old one was getting pretty tattered.	Delian
44947	That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.	NekoKanjya
1969205	He told me that she will not tell him what happened to me on the day he saw me talking about the story about the girl who got killed.	Pengaterch
1334053	I got fired from the company, but since I have a little money saved up, for the time being, I won't have trouble with living expenses.	CK
277683	It wasn't my lucky day. First, I got a parking ticket and then things went from bad to worse when I got pulled over for making a U-turn.	CM
52784	John and Cathy have different tastes and different characters. Trying to get them together is like putting a square peg in a round hole.	CM
953968	In many countries, whenever a group of people from various language backgrounds get together, English is usually the language that is spoken.	CK
2278815	The more time you spend speaking a foreign language, the better you get at guessing what non-native speakers are trying to say in your own language.	CK
1232894	Midterm exams start next week. Just cramming the night before won't get you ready. There'll be a lot of tough questions. You should start studying today.	CK
1559747	I have decided that I won't let people get close to me anymore, this means that I will never expect someone to love me, nor will I open my heart to anyone.	al_ex_an_der
3037515	Tom threw rocks at Mary's window in the middle of the night to get her attention, but he ended up breaking her window instead and Mary's father called the cops.	Hybrid
918414	You can't view Flash content on an iPad. However, you can easily email yourself the URLs of these web pages and view that content on your regular computer when you get home.	CK
62321	I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.	CM
1863010	"Top-down economics never works," said Obama. "The country does not succeed when just those at the very top are doing well. We succeed when the middle class gets bigger, when it feels greater security."	Source_VOA