Example sentences of "[verb] to get [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adventurous Spartan generals — Kleomenes , Pausanias the Regent , Brasidas , Lysander — tried to get extra soldiers from the nearest source , their own country 's helots . |
| 2 | In 1988 , when a Conservative backbencher , Robert Adley , tried to get diplomatic relations restored , Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions . |
| 3 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | OK , if you want to get picky guitars should purr , destroy and rejuvenate , and dance beats should prowl , pace and threaten . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course it 's important — you want to get good grades , and you wo n't get them if you do n't study . ’ |
| 8 | So it 's easier than you said it 's more difficult than if you want to get clear recordings . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It becomes so expensive erm and if we are going to get new facilities erm we ca n't just keep upgrading what we 've got now , we have to build new . |
| 14 | We 're not going to get big bills . |
| 15 | Every now and again you 're going to get exceptional circumstances and these things happen once in a while . |
| 16 | He intends to get other unions to lobby the government for some sort of taxation to be levied on the hotel industry , which is all we need . ’ |
| 17 | With your thumb across string 6 you can strum away to your heart 's content with this shape — if you happen to get other strings sounding out , it matters not a lot . |
| 18 | Coercion had to be used to get local farmers to undertake these ( technically dubious ) measures . |
| 19 | Q I have been having trouble with my Knitmaster Transfer Carriage and I always seem to get dropped stitches ; these then run down the knitting and it would be quicker to transfer the stitches by hand rather than use this gadget . |
| 20 | I ca n't do it , so that I 've got to get full marks for the exam to pass , without the other two bits on it , I ca n't do that |
| 21 | I 'd like to get nice things but I ca n't . |
| 22 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 23 | I have never heard of anybody , apart from people who may hope to get good jobs in these bogus new regional authorities , who , thrilled by a weird kind of socialist local patriotism , longs for the day when the flag of the East Midland Region is raised over the Great Roundabout of Retford , or the parliament of the West Midland Region holds its inaugural meeting at Telford New Town . |
| 24 | Back at hospital we were beginning to get civilian casualties , as well as soldiers from Dunkirk . |
| 25 | By then , however , Norway , with the weakest and least industrialised economy of the three major states , was beginning to get cold feet and insisted upon appending a minority report saying that it could not , given its current economic situation , contemplate joining a customs union . |
| 26 | We are following the commitment that we gave in 1973 to ever closer union , so why are we now beginning to get cold feet ? |
| 27 | After she changed the number , Coleman himself began to get similar calls at the apartment he had taken for the family in Palatine , a commuter train ride from the Boy Scouts ' office on Lake Street , Chicago , although these , too , stopped after he took the DIA 's advice and obtained an unlisted number . |
| 28 | I began to get cold feet , but these other two guys were totally positive and they were absolutely right . |
| 29 | Dealers would try to get other dealers sacked from rival firms , even if they had worked with them once . |
| 30 | As soon as I 'd woken up , I started to get strange pains in my stomach . |