Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this spared the Bush Administration from the perils of thinking for itself , or heaven forbid , taking a policy decision for which it might get criticised , it naively ignored the danger that Bonn might have a large axe of its own to grind . |
| 2 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 3 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 4 | It is offering its 3,000 employees over the age of 50 a voluntary early retirement programme under which they will get full retirement benefits and a year and a half of extra pay if they leave the company and start their own companies in businesses related to IBM . |
| 5 | It has to be remembered that children love an exercise in which they can get things right , or , of course , wrong . |
| 6 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 7 | First , internecine rivalries ensured that his opponents would never join forces to oust him ; for that reason alone , they would be allowed to continue , though never to reach a point at which they might get out of hand and overwhelm him . |
| 8 | Macbeth , short and severely to the point , is not a play onto which you can get much spin , but what we are given here is a treatment devoid of ambiguity . |
| 9 | yeah , basically , I mean you could go to poly with what you could get , yeah |
| 10 | The reactions of an educated élite , the study of whose reading matter has so often given social and cultural historians their main access to the past , no longer remains the only documentation by which we can get at the culture of ‘ the common man ’ . |
| 11 | I 've only given a hint of what you 'll get as a Hilton Club member . |
| 12 | Just as firms have to modify what they want in strategic terms with what they can get , so too for government . |
| 13 | There are two ways in which you can get at the money in your High Interest Cheque Account , whenever you want , without losing any interest . |
| 14 | You also might find situations in which you can get on public transport without paying . |
| 15 | Okay , so the , the reflective pronouns require a C commanding antecedent , antecedent really is just a noun phrase from which it can get its reference like herself back to Florence . |
| 16 | Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way . |
| 17 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 18 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 19 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 20 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 21 | I only take up with men for what I can get out of them . ’ |
| 22 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 23 | You , if you are well informed , can then point out that there 's a way in which he can get tax relief on his donations . |
| 24 | There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof . |
| 25 | Yes I think er that that , yes that , that sounds about right from the point of view of what you 'd get back . |
| 26 | The wage that an individual receives is determined by his inherited ability , his human capital and the extent to which he can get his abilities recognized . |