Example sentences of "[verb] get things " in BNC.
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| 1 | LONDON UNCLE Ian 's Deli-Diner has got things determinedly backwards . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's no dumb blonde , she has got a skin of steel and by the way she conducts herself you can tell she has got things in proportion too . |
| 3 | Moreover — and more fundamentally — this way of thinking about Human Liberation has got things backwards . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps if we tried to get things straight in our minds now , it might hurry the enquiry along , ’ Peggy suggested , casually . |
| 5 | Such task analysis can only be carried out to some cost-effective limit beyond which the skilled operator must be trusted to get things right by applying his broad expertise . |
| 6 | He really wants to get things right . |
| 7 | I am especially grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister for Roads and Traffic , who has paid particular attention to the problem over recent months to try to get things right . |
| 8 | So perhaps they would have made the same mistakes as well. , He believes his most serious mistake was wanting to get things done in a hurry . |
| 9 | " I was glad to have a second chance to be leader to correct some of the insensitivities that I may have had , because of my own personal drive , wanting to get things done . |
| 10 | Oh I ca n't I 've got things to do in the office , a busy company here . |
| 11 | She was n't going to get things her own way . |
| 12 | It 's reassuring to get things into some kind of cosmic perspective , to realize that the total of man 's activity is no more than a faint line on the infinite creativity of God 's hand . ’ |
| 13 | A lot of international help will be needed to get things moving . |
| 14 | A lot of international help will be needed to get things moving . |
| 15 | Just as well there 're computer programs like Calendar Creator plus for Windows to help get things organized . |
| 16 | The most important thing I learnt was that the lawyer 's job in local government is to help get things done rather than provide elegant reasons for doing nothing . |
| 17 | If that 's at all true , I 'd like to help to get things straight . |
| 18 | So we 've had to get things out of her sister 's catalogue if we want them . |
| 19 | But they seem to get things done at Edingley at site meetings . |
| 20 | You 've cer got to get things in perspective I mean that |
| 21 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 22 | ‘ No , child , I had enough to do getting things ready for the party . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So it was , but I like to get things straight . ’ |
| 24 | We all like to get things right do n't we ? |
| 25 | ‘ We like to get things right . ’ |
| 26 | At last , they thought , the Islands Council was beginning to get things right . |
| 27 | The secretary-general , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , has made recommendations and his new peacekeeping chief , Kofi Annan , is beginning to get things done , fast . |
| 28 | And it 's when the drama becomes " tingly " that we know our organisation is working well ; that we 're beginning to get things right intuitively . |
| 29 | However , once our son arrives , I may have got things on an even keel and be able to take some time off . ’ |
| 30 | " It 's best to say so and try to get things clear . |