Example sentences of "[verb] to get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 2 | Adventurous Spartan generals — Kleomenes , Pausanias the Regent , Brasidas , Lysander — tried to get extra soldiers from the nearest source , their own country 's helots . |
| 3 | In 1988 , when a Conservative backbencher , Robert Adley , tried to get diplomatic relations restored , Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions . |
| 4 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 5 | USL says it ‘ would be happy to help Sun do that , ’ but SunSoft , which also has a seat on USL 's board , is currently lobbying hard to get its own views adopted by UI , and to do that it needs to get other members on its side . |
| 6 | This is an important point of principle given that Mr Bell was accused of using his contacts to try to get cheap labour for a family business . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Samuel Skinner , the secretary of transport , will be in Europe later this month to try to get foreign carriers and governments to foot some of the bill for the new bomb-detecting machines . |
| 8 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 9 | OK , if you want to get picky guitars should purr , destroy and rejuvenate , and dance beats should prowl , pace and threaten . |
| 10 | The thing is , if I 'm going to start my own business one day , I want to get good experience working for the best … so I do n't care whether I 'm answering the phone or working in their library . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course it 's important — you want to get good grades , and you wo n't get them if you do n't study . ’ |
| 12 | So it 's easier than you said it 's more difficult than if you want to get clear recordings . |
| 13 | Shildon-born Mr Jackson said : ‘ To be a good instructor you must have had at least a season 's skiing on snow and if you want to get basic qualifications you would be charged around £3,000 . ’ |
| 14 | So we want to get bright objects that we can see at great distances , but we also need to know something about what it is we 're looking at . |
| 15 | Lady Wilcox said : ‘ We want to get informed comment before we draw up firm recommendations , but , at present , it seems to us that the best solution is likely to be a mixture of funding from different quarters . ’ |
| 16 | There is a supplementary book included in the package , however , and you would do well to read this first if you want to get maximum benefit from the program . |
| 17 | There is a supplementary book included in the package , however , and you would do well to read this first if you want to get maximum benefit from the program . |
| 18 | With the best will in the world , an amateur path builder has to get professional help . |
| 19 | Let's hope Santa is n't too strapped for cash as a result of the interest rate because he also has to get Silvanian fire places , sewing machines , Sindy ( sic ) dolls , guns , kitchen sets , guitars , books , a baby changing unit , felt tip pens , videos , electric cars , electric trains , micro machines , computers , personal stereos , mighty metro racing sets , radio controlled aeroplanes , slippers and a camra . |
| 20 | Er you know erm the letter , the reply went back from Dave saying that every you know , possible thing was done to get bilingual staff but at the end of the day you know they could n't come up with the goods . |
| 21 | If he or she is apprised in advance of your particular aims and objectives , and work the pupils have already done on the topic , and so on , the session can often be very carefully tailored to get maximum value from the visit . |
| 22 | Attempts are now being made to get protected status for the building . |
| 23 | As she got to the bottom Michele appeared in the hall , and said briefly , ‘ There 's nothing to be achieved by staying here , so I 've decided to get straight back . |
| 24 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 25 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 26 | But the libertine who turned to religion in maturity seemed to get undue credit . |
| 27 | I was not alone in wanting to get private investment into public-sector industries . |
| 28 | Sound quality Do n't expect to get brilliant sound quality from a small speaker . |
| 29 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |
| 30 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications says it is planning to build an administrative network that will link the local area networks used in government offices across the country , but the plan is still in its embryonic stages ; at the same time the ministry is studying a proposal for a fibre to the home project that plans to get Japanese households connected up by 2015 ; total infrastructure costs are estimated at about $256,000m . |