Example sentences of "[vb mod] get [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some devilment afoot and I must get back to back up poor dear old Austen ’ . |
| 2 | I must get help . ’ |
| 3 | It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect . |
| 4 | He really must get hold of another book . |
| 5 | with , they must get hold of a new windscreen before going home Oh look Just Good Friends . |
| 6 | Yeah especially as er , I 'll have to go and speak to er must get hold of John |
| 7 | I really must get Dad here ’ — I hissed those two words — ‘ to get me an old car I could drive on the sands . ’ |
| 8 | For instance , if the defendant tells a taxi driver that he must get money from his flat and the driver agrees , does he make off ? |
| 9 | To achieve this , however , we must get publication underway within the next few days . |
| 10 | You must get permission from your manager in advance for all absences , apart from sickness . |
| 11 | Audrey Spooner has been told she must get planning permission — or close down . |
| 12 | But you must get borderline cases from time to time . |
| 13 | He spoke a message which the country has heard before — that taxation is too heavy , that unemployment ( 1½ million ) is too high , that we spend far too much on armaments and must get disarmament in Europe , that we must stick to Free Trade … |
| 14 | you have to wait longer than you should to get money back from the Revenue ; |
| 15 | BRAVE souls thinking of buying in London 's Docklands should get hold of a new free guide from the London Docklands Development Corporation . |
| 16 | ‘ They should get credit for the informal aspects of what they did , and their staff work was superb ’ , says , a senior associate with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment . |
| 17 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 18 | Should get tennis fans in the mood for love of a different kind . |
| 19 | Of course , all these symptoms can be part of the growing-up process , but if you are worried that your teenager might be taking drugs , or suspect drug-taking among their friends or school mates , it is very important for their own safety that you should get help . |
| 20 | We should get help with James though should n't we ? |
| 21 | So you got any ideas what you 're gon na get , what you should get mum for ? |
| 22 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 23 | He informed me that if I drank water all the time , and never wine , I should get cancer of the stomach . |
| 24 | Since it was not the job of a public inquiry to question government policy the CEGB should get permission . |
| 25 | The solicitor declared that he should get compensation for that , took his case on , and the man ended up with £250 . |
| 26 | He provided a letter from ‘ Richard Neville , Editor , Hippy Review , Turramurra North ’ , to the New Statesman : ‘ Sir : There 's a new generation with a new explanation , everybody should get VD , when you come to Notting Hill wear a big flower in your wig . |
| 27 | ‘ I think , rather than be penalised , you should get bonus points for recognising when you really are ready to go up . ’ |
| 28 | Pierre Naville , for instance , enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world as ‘ automatic writing ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 99 ) . |
| 29 | Thus Naville enthused that we should get pleasure from the streets of the city in which kiosks , autos , and lights were in a sense already representations , and Breton spoke of the world itself as ‘ automatic writing ’ . |
| 30 | The local historian W. G. Hopkins once claimed that every historian worth his salt should get mud on his boots . |