Example sentences of "[verb] got them " in BNC.

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1 Governments , it seems , have yet to learn a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge : the tobacco industry has got them precisely where it wants them .
2 It 's not that they need them , it 's because they know everyone else has got them .
3 If God 's overall strategy in sending us his Spirit is to equip the Church for mission , and bring people into the messianic kingdom , the sphere of salvation — we may well ask what he does when he has got them there ?
4 ‘ Normally clients wo n't get the feeling they have had value for money unless they have had a disaster and the lawyer has got them out of it , ’ said , one of the senior partners in Biggart Baillie Gifford 's company and commercial department .
5 Then he knows that he has got them .
6 Colin Shepherd , the Hereford Conservative , has got them breathing down his neck too .
7 It is n't now for the rest nobody has got them .
8 He 'd got them all right .
9 Philip knew where he 'd got them , from Mrs Wright 's , the time they 'd sneaked into her house .
10 I 'd got them : Fs , Gs , and the Big U — Unclassified .
11 Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop .
12 And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes .
13 Plus cigarette cards if they 'd got them in their pockets .
14 I forgot I 'd got them on and I slipped on the bottom stairs .
15 I 'd got them all .
16 And then erm mother of course , I can always remember was in the Guild and erm she would , the Guild in those days I 'm always telling the er people today , were very , very active women , very active erm and you 'd got them as councillors , magistrates erm come forward to all these positions .
17 So whether he did n't believe that I , I 'd got them right or not I do n't know but the answers were there .
18 I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough .
19 I went out to bring the washing in and he 'd got them in his mouth !
20 It 's the only way the Press could 've got them . ’
21 Oh so you should 've got them for January ?
22 I thought I 'd 've got them for me bleeding snap .
23 Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away .
24 A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here .
25 Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ?
26 Okay , so I lied about the cuddly toy and the microwave , but I bet if ART could have got them into the Multiverb 's 1U , 19″ rack format they would have .
27 The three chief contenders for the leadership of the Socialist Party , when the ailing Andreas Papandreou hands it over , all tell you sensible things that would have got them drummed out of the party ten years ago .
28 When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes .
29 Crawling about disposing of the body , he could have got them dusty . ’
30 ‘ You did n't know that he acquired them through his wife who must have got them while she was housekeeper-companion to Mrs Armitage ? ’
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