Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room . |
| 2 | For example , my Department funds various motor projects which have played an increasing role , and there are some excellent examples which focus on demanding programmes to get motor offenders to change to adopt responsible attitudes and behaviour . |
| 3 | You became decently engaged and made plans to get married six months or a year ahead , and in the meantime you lived decorously at home with your parents . |
| 4 | In the present situation , the ASEA could never be a remedy for the ‘ general wastefulness of industry ‘ ; instead , its proper role was in helping employers to get the right kind of boy , and boys to find the right kind of employer and to ensure that training was effective , both in terms of the workshop and of continued education . |
| 5 | Well , I , I think it 's a sound idea , I think it 's sad at a time of local government reorganization when we 're likely to see authorities getting smaller , and yet the , the issues wo n't get any smaller , and the new authorities may well be having to look at ways of getting together with their neighbours to look at strategies which cover areas of the sort of size of the old county areas , and also getting together to , to , to meet , erm , organizations which will still on county-size boundaries , like Techs , and , and similar . |
| 6 | One year 's notice was given to enable schools to get the records into order . |
| 7 | Some of the thirty thousand workers employed at the Midlands plants , incensed by the idleness forced on them by the Merseysiders and alarmed at the bleak prospect ahead , stormed through the streets to Clem Bunker 's regional office demanding action to get the Merseyside plants back to work . |
| 8 | But some children , either through their experience of using tantrums to get their own way or through general strong will and temperament , will take a lot of teaching and repeated experiences to realize finally that they can not always get their own way . |
| 9 | Hatchards in Piccadilly was crammed to bursting with authors last Wednesday for its Authors of the Year reception , the annual event the bookshop stages to enable authors to get together with each other , and not a publisher in sight . |
| 10 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 11 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 12 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want kids to get the wrong idea from that song . |
| 14 | They have a major part to play in helping clients get their rights from other social services . |
| 15 | Are you like this stupid little bitch 's aunt — do you think Rembrandt got the teeniest bit bored when he painted ? |
| 16 | Perhaps over confident , his application to the first set seemed to lack the determination he had applied in their previous meetings and as the first set ebbed away 6–3 , Wilkinson found difficulty getting his game together in a slipping match . |
| 17 | ‘ You want Perdita to get this scholarship , do n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | he says I wan na go with mummy , but he 's , he , no , in that gate , in that gate has Jim got hold of Richard 's stuff ? |
| 19 | Well they used , and it 's only that , I do n't know o get a lorry up on a Wednesday . |
| 20 | Has Matt got some ? |
| 21 | Has , has Betnovate got steroids in it ? |
| 22 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 23 | ‘ What has Colbert got to get girls like Stephanie ? ’ |
| 24 | Has Melanie got some skates ? |
| 25 | Walking through the woods at the back of Westfield Manor , Patrick brought him up to date on the burglar who had committed murder to get hold of a packet of letters , and the macabre business of the switched bodies . |
| 26 | The second way of budding is a little easier , perhaps , but needs practice to get things just right . |
| 27 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
| 28 | So it just needs David to get through ? |
| 29 | Has David got some coleslaw ? |
| 30 | Has Jean got to be here ? |