Example sentences of "[vb -s] 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 | He really wants to get things right . |
| 5 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 6 | It is a mix of staff , says Shandell , which also helps get things done when dealing with ministerial bureaucracy . |
| 7 | But somehow he does get things done , and he has , after all , resisted the lure of the west up to a point — ‘ can I say that I could now fill 360 days with western offers and stay somewhere between America , Europe and Japan for an entire year ? ’ — to continue his own reconstruction work at the Maryinsky . |
| 8 | ‘ Leave a silly old woman alone , Jeff , she 's got things to do . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And if he 's got things like your class take for granted you jump right on him , say he must have nicked them . |
| 10 | ‘ If he 's got things like your class take for granted , ’ the girl had said , ‘ you say he must have nicked them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He 's got things to do , ’ said his Mum . |
| 12 | Come down 'ere now , there 's a love , Sergeant Joe 's got things to do . ’ |
| 13 | He 's got things to do and people to see . |
| 14 | Look at that it 's got things sticking out . |
| 15 | No , I mean he 's got things that er he 's got er CDs and things in the window but it 's not erm |
| 16 | and er , she said er , she 's got things sort of straightened out and she had a good nights sleep with her dog , both dogs , one on the bed and one by the side of her . |
| 17 | I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever . |