Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me eight hours to get ready and you 're on . ’ |
| 2 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 3 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's never taken you six hours to get from Rosslare to here ! ’ he exclaimed in disbelief . |
| 5 | Scuba World in its magnanimity has given you five chances to get it right . |
| 6 | I 'll give you twenty minutes to get ready . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll give you 24 hours to get off my turf or I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 8 | They estimate it will take them 20,000 man-hours to get the aircraft flying and ready for the round-the-world trip . |
| 9 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 10 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |
| 11 | take me twelve months to get back on me blooming feet . |
| 12 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 13 | The distance is just over fifty miles but it can take him three hours to get there . |
| 14 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 15 | ‘ He took over a team in turmoil — and it might take him five years to get it right . |
| 16 | It could take him five seasons to get it right |
| 17 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 18 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 19 | so anyway he 's he 's engaged and it 's taken him two years to get engaged so it 's gon na take another couple of years to get married . |
| 20 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 21 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 22 | If yous let it , cos to get the full diploma you 've got to get your two skills which is medical audio , and medical shorthand , you 've got to have them two skills to get the diploma . |
| 23 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can admit this , but I still want you , Jessamy . |
| 25 | It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can live without you , start to look forward to the future , and you 're not going to take that away from me . |
| 26 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 27 | Give me two minutes to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 28 | Listen : it 's taken me two years to get this thing done . |
| 29 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 30 | Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South . |