Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 2 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 3 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 4 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 5 | In an attempt to change that , the Census Bureau has launched a vigorous campaign to get as many people as possible to answer its questions . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 7 | Do children have to cross a busy street to get to it ? |
| 8 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |
| 9 | inge , we 're our own which means that we are , our problems are so limited that we actually carry the liability ourselves , we do n't even have to use an external company to get the rates on . |
| 10 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |
| 11 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 12 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 13 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 14 | The friends , all from the Meadowfield and Brandon area of County Durham , had stayed overnight on their way home and had made an early start to get back in time to play in a Sunday League fixture for their local pub team . |
| 15 | With a soft top , yeah the easiest thing to do is just get a knife , stick it in and slit it and you 've got a little hole to get in . |
| 16 | So the platers had to use a manual override to get any production at all . |
| 17 | It is a shameless form of payola for those who have helped a political party to get elected . |
| 18 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 19 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |