Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In A Piece of Cake Mrs Large , the hard-pressed mother , has decided to get the family slim and trim . |
| 2 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 3 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 4 | It therefore afforded a fair degree of personal relief , not to say pleasure , to see Shahid follow a career-best 132 against Kent with an equally estimable against Glamorgan , even if Nick Knight , with whom he has been competing since schooldays , has continued to get the nod when the side is at full strength . |
| 5 | Muriel really ca n't abide the sound of pop music , and she has managed to get the club to agree that the music must finish at 10 p.m . |
| 6 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 7 | She 'd gone to get the food . |
| 8 | I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again . |
| 9 | It was the secretary to Sheik Asball Hasseinen : the man she 'd gobbled to get the information that brought her here . |
| 10 | He would have had to get the body up here — ’ |
| 11 | Having failed to get the Europeans ' agreement on a course of action , Warren Christopher , America 's secretary of state , is back to what the Bush administration was saying 18 months ago : Yugoslavia is at heart a European problem . |
| 12 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 13 | That was Sir James Campbell 's undoing in this section of his county , for he had undertaken to get the presentation for Bruce in order to oblige one of his friends who had accepted a nominal vote from him , but the friend , David Gourlay , was only a small heritor , and the bulk of the landed property in the parish together with the kirk session were firmly attached to Mr. Ure . |
| 14 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've got to get the ball into the box / to the byline / to the wide men ’ |
| 16 | I 've got to get the police . |
| 17 | Which is why we 've got to get the typescript to her by the end of January . |
| 18 | Then you 've got to get the experience |
| 19 | Yeah , okay so there 's an H C L and we 've got to get the N A from something , that 's the acid and now we need an alkali . |
| 20 | If the table was , I mean we 've got to get the . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've got to get the gold , Rex . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah he is oh heck I 've got to get the news in have n't I that worries me . |
| 23 | We 've got to get the men . |
| 24 | Strach said before the match ‘ if we get the first goal , then there 's only gon na be one winner ’ — fair enough , but you 've got to get the first goal . |
| 25 | Is that sort of thing , presumably we 've got to get the racking people back in to do that have we ? |
| 26 | We 've got to get the things to do but quite often if you are , we 've got to have those things to do you 've got finish by a particular time . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've got to get the breathing back to how it was when you were first born . |
| 28 | You 've got to get the ball in the right area to take advantage of them and that knowledge only comes with practice in similar conditions . ’ |
| 29 | You 've got to get the right deal . |
| 30 | I suppose I 've got to get the ice out as well have I ? |