Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 2 | I have my doubts about this one but you may in due course get a proposal from him . |
| 3 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 4 | Nevertheless Stavrogin does contemplate suicide , and the notebook entry ‘ to be or not to be ’ bears the date 16 August , so it belongs to the summer when the ‘ tendentious ’ political story gets tugged back into great-sinner orbit , growing physically and imaginatively larger and more formidable all the time . |
| 5 | Give me eight hours to get ready and you 're on . ’ |
| 6 | You need about fucking forty eight hours to get through this |
| 7 | Kalpana Inc , the Sunnyvale , California pioneer of Ethernet switching , whereby an Ethernet is recast as a star network with a central switch , so that each user gets the full 10Mbps Ethernet bandwidth , reports that it received $9.1m in mezzanine financing . |
| 8 | There were various more or less half-hearted attempts to get over the finality of this selection . |
| 9 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 10 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 11 | Neat : the rich West gets the power ; the poor East gets the power stations . |
| 12 | A white , descended from Corsican immigrants , Cipriani had sharpened his latent powers of leadership in the prolonged fight to get equal treatment for West Indian soldiers during the first World War . |
| 13 | now he passed that on , that had , sort of knowledge on through the people in the shop okay , if you , soon as that link gets broken and you go into a shop something like erm Burtons okay , big retail shop like Burtons , you go in there you 'll have a manager in there and assistants and so on , but their background knowledge has nothing to do with tailoring , nothing at all |
| 14 | The winner of each category gets £200 , and two other projects in each category will be highly commended . |
| 15 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 16 | The other , which seems to be an obsession for the Prime Minister , was his odd crusade to get a fair deal for the oppressed users of motorway service stations . |
| 17 | As West European industrialisation got under way , so the demand for goods manufactured in and around Danzig also began to improve : there was increased Prussian demand for armaments , chemicals , food , timber , clothing and shipbuilding to support the growth of industry in Western Prussia . |
| 18 | João went off hunting in the Alentejo with his friends for the last three days before the wedding , so Sara had little opportunity to get to know him better . |
| 19 | The inhabitants of Darcy 's Utopia will have as much or as little difficulty getting together as anyone else . |
| 20 | and it was er open on her bed , she popped out for , for about , I du n no forty odd minutes to get her hair done or something I was well tempted to have a look , but I thought no if I get a diary and somebody looked , looked through mine I would n't be happy about it , so I did n't its quite a hard temptation but |
| 21 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 22 | Debt and dear money got us into it and , until we break debt 's grip , we shall never get out of it . |
| 23 | well can you explain please as the man who devised these charges and assessed them and work them out how by some process of reason anybody reading that sentence gets the clue that when it says management charges will rise at a rate below the level of inflation , it refers to one pound fifty nine , how can you understand that ? |
| 24 | The buoy shielded her from the view of the guards , and she used that advantage to get her breath back . |
| 25 | Think of that story getting passed down the generations , each time they handed it on it became more colourful and exaggerated . |
| 26 | Check : Each sister gets 6 cookies and 3 × 6 = 18 . |
| 27 | Several of the nearer birds got up and flew along the shore , revealing another feature which pin-pointed their origins : the lack of a white rump showed them to be of the race hudsonicus which breeds in northern Canada . |
| 28 | If difficulties of that kind get out of hand , a crisis state develops . |
| 29 | There is a strong incentive for local Labour parties to get everyone registered , even in safe urban seats , to avoid the seat disappearing altogether . |
| 30 | It will take a little practice to get right , but a tie made properly and firmly in this way will ‘ feel ’ right , and it will at once be clear how and why this method does a job that other methods and materials do not do . |