Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 2 | the cat wants to get dwon the steis |
| 3 | Then , one of them went to a cash machine to try to get money from her account . |
| 4 | In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor 's notes ( Menary , 1986 ) by the explanation : ‘ This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 5 | He did The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover and had a laugh trying to get Peter Greenaway to loosen up . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you must need support and , if your husband refuses to get advice , then you have to consider your own needs . |
| 7 | Gradually most of the group began to get work , though for Nicholson it was , as he put it , still a time of preparation . |
| 8 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 9 | It would have been a good excuse to use to get Mr Parnham off his back . |
| 10 | Gary Bennett and Richard Ord are dropped in a reshuffle designed to get goals . |
| 11 | But builders fear neither the Tories nor Labour could find the money for the much bigger public works pro gramme needed to get construction moving . |
| 12 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 13 | The goal was just the shock needed to get Town moving and they were back in the match just four minutes later … goal poacher Steve White who scored a hat-trick last saturday was there again to make it one all … |
| 14 | On the journey our eldest child picked up bubonic plague , and when the steamer moored at Chauk my wife managed to get medicines from the BOC Hospital shortly before it closed . |
| 15 | There were no problems today with the photographers , unlike yesterday when England officials publicly clashed with a New Zealand TV crew trying to get close-ups of Lawrence suffering . |
| 16 | Tim was fascinated at seeing overturned engines on the side of the line , and you girls were a little anxious as you saw me and a nice Salvation Army wife tear down the track when the train stopped to get water from the engine ! |
| 17 | Press and television thronged to get words from the aircrew , S/L Dave Thomas said it was the ‘ passing of a great era ’ and of the campaign to keep XH558 flying that ‘ it reflects the affection in which the aircraft is held . ’ |
| 18 | Many of the techniques of exploratory data analysis require the repetition of procedures to converge on a fit that minimizes the residuals ; this can make the techniques rather laborious , but it is one side of the trade-off required to get methods of analysis which are resistant to outliers . |
| 19 | This is a typical problem that would come into one of our advice centres where a consumer has bought something , f failed to get any satisfaction from the shop and then has gone to the advice centre to er has found and tries to find the nearest Citizen 's Advice Bureau or Advice Centre to try to get advice . |
| 20 | The government has to get money from somewhere , and it is logical that it should look at the whole area of VAT . |
| 21 | Even with such opportunities as the Bill presents to get cases into the Crown court , where the offence involves only damage to vehicles or property — the vast bulk of cases — it is the value of the damage to property , as set out in clause 2 , that is the criterion , not the extent of the nuisance and danger , although that is the real problem with which we need to get to grips . |
| 22 | The girl , of Pitsea , Essex , has spent 14 hours a day with two specially trained policewomen and a counsellor to try to get information on the rapist . |
| 23 | Under a lot of pressure trying to get quarts out of pint pots and I think y you you 've suffered the same way . |
| 24 | That 's right , yeah she 'll be going through all the same thing trying to get money |
| 25 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 26 | You 'll have difficulty trying to get hold of a bike or a canoe in the Tatras . |
| 27 | These problems can be resolved in several ways , however , and certainly should n't present a barrier to any user determined to get letter quality output from his word processing package . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the Company failed to get Corporation sanction for this , and so the trailers remained disused in the depot until replaced by new cars 9 and 10 , built by Milnes in 1891 . |
| 29 | Major Burrows suffered a great deal with asthma and had taken leave from the corps for a year to try to get control of the symptoms which were becoming chronic . |
| 30 | He said that on Donna Simpkin 's death , mantack stood to get £90,000 from a life insurance policy that had been taken out just days before the killing . |