Example sentences of "[verb] to get [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She had expected to get good advice from Lovat , not a proposal of marriage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With the best will in the world , an amateur path builder has to get professional help . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Attempts are now being made to get protected status for the building . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the libertine who turned to religion in maturity seemed to get undue credit . |
| 15 | I was not alone in wanting to get private investment into public-sector industries . |
| 16 | Sound quality Do n't expect to get brilliant sound quality from a small speaker . |
| 17 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |
| 18 | Well in effect it says that how that it 's now the Party is sanctionalizing absolute egalitarianism , the aim that landlords , K M T officers , everyone 's going to get equal distribution of land . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're never going to get financial help in Britain . ’ |
| 20 | But , then , you 're going to get extra pay for it . ’ |
| 21 | There will always be books which are worth launching with a party because you are going to get wide coverage , but the half-page ad in Cosmo on your own is n't worth half as much as an advertorial that is tied in with a bookshop group . |
| 22 | After a period of some confusion it seems that Carvin gear is going to get proper distribution in the UK . |
| 23 | Brett howls ‘ He 's my insatiable one ’ like a man who 's going to get wicked pleasure from baffling passing milkmen , and it 's all rather lurid and glamorous and hilarious and marginally affected and hugely , wildly effective . |
| 24 | Outside of a real news event of national importance ( and your clients are unlikely ever to have such announcements ) you are probably not going to get national TV coverage during most of your working year . |
| 25 | ‘ If we are going to get reliable evidence from children and make our own evaluation of what they are saying then it is absolutely essential the stories are not contaminated by those who are being accused with the responsibility for harm or neglect . ’ |
| 26 | It believes Unix is unlikely to capture even 10% of the 32-bit commercial desktop market , falling way short of the 20% or 30% needed to get broad market , ISV and channel support . |
| 27 | A good stance and plenty of wind is needed to get sufficient speed and then the footsteering principle is used throughout the turn with little help from the sail . |
| 28 | A o one tends to get confused Lord Mayor . |
| 29 | It 's a Les Paul-type guitar and it 's great , apart from the fact that I seem to get terrible feedback , even at low volumes . |
| 30 | You 've got to erm , I 've got to get well Dad 's got the form I can get another one he can , erm the forms have got to be in soon so she knows how many are going to be sort of on the walls you know . |