Example sentences of "[adj] to get [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the main impetus behind EMU is the desire of the French to get a seat on the Bundesbank , and given the fact that the Germans hold all the aces , this is hardly surprising . |
| 2 | Virtually any dried foods can be prepared in this way at very little cost and this has been found to be more than adequate to get the fry . |
| 3 | MacQuillan was destined to win the contest , but I was prepared to get a strike or two in first . |
| 4 | They were all slate there , the old new there was slate there , but they were n't prepared to get the machines to clear it , at it . |
| 5 | He , Lewis , was quite prepared to get the place redecorated at his own expense . |
| 6 | When I used to say , ‘ Oh yeah ’ , he 'd reply , ‘ Do n't be cheeky , you 're not too old to get a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 7 | What sort of thing did you have to do wrong to get the cane ? |
| 8 | For goodness sake , why should small city-centre hotels have to operate restaurants or be forced into stupid little half-measures such as the aforementioned to get a rating ? |
| 9 | If HW is as smart as he is supposed to be ( he is favourite to get the pos. as Englands new manager ) he would have let Frank come on much earlier ’ |
| 10 | It might be sensible to get a solicitor . |
| 11 | Now they were unfashionable , maybe it would be OK to get a Filofax . |
| 12 | Besides , the only stakeholders with an indisputable interest in stopping the sale are NCR 's top managers , who were careful to get the board to boost their own severance packages on the day Ma Bell made its bid . |
| 13 | You do n't need to head up high to get a kick from the countryside . |
| 14 | He had to reach up high to get the chocolate and accidentally knocked over a bottle of milk . |
| 15 | There was always a furtive seediness behind the communist slogans and the red flags like the hard currency prostitutes in the hotels for foreigners or the backhanders required to get a table in a restaurant . |
| 16 | Because of all the publicity this pill has been give , many women have been led to think it will be simple to get an abortion . |
| 17 | This clever ladders and platforms game is highly addictive , yet simple to get the hang of . |
| 18 | Its dimensions were easy to get a hold on . |
| 19 | He told her it had not been easy to get a word in . |
| 20 | I kept on at the council , but it was n't easy to get a council flat in those days . |
| 21 | It would certainly be easy to get a starting time . |
| 22 | ‘ You remember you said it was easy to get a book published if everyone knew your name ? ’ |
| 23 | Panel interviews can be rather intimidating as it is easy to get a feeling of ‘ just me against all of them ’ . |
| 24 | I 'm divorced now and not finding it easy to get a job in civvy street . ’ |
| 25 | It is easier to say whether a man has paid the money or not than to say whether he has complied with other orders ; and if he fails to pay , it is easy to get the money by selling his goods , if he has any . |
| 26 | It was easy to get the name of brains in those days . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not always easy to get the jokes . |
| 28 | She had lined her pencil-box with pond-weed ready to receive the creature , but she discovered that it was not easy to get the newt out of the hat and into the pencil-box . |
| 29 | The spokesman for the Liberal Democrats will probably agree that to go into further detail could make it less easy to get the type of consensus that we want . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'll not find it easy to get the keys from old Joanna , ’ Rhodri remarked with malice , as they passed in through the archway and continued along the town walls . |