Example sentences of "and get [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I did n't mean her to run off and get lost . |
2 | ‘ Yes , you do that and I 'll go and get Great-gran to come and witness her golden boy stark naked in the bath with his daughter sitting on his lap . ’ |
3 | It was really exciting just to carry on and get involved in making an album — get on the road . |
4 | Their aim was two-fold ; to raise much needed funds , and to introduce the public to an event they could understand and get involved in . |
5 | The tax system extensively encouraged all peasant owners to settle down and get rich because the tax rate remained fixed on grain output from each household but the adjustment of the tax rate was more advantageous to the rich peasant than the poor , especially in view of the fact that the rich peasant still owned proportionately more land than the poor peasant . |
6 | which children can pull off and get scalded . |
7 | to joke and get half-screwed ourselves . |
8 | He was going to go and get Janine and the baby and if necessary drag her to the flat in Westbourne Park . |
9 | I have n't time to really listen and get good feedback from my kids … |
10 | Dr Collins has the great advantage of being allowed to go out and get new fossils from the Burgess site — everyone else has to make do with what is already in museums . |
11 | The cat , delighted that its ordeal was over , burrowed under the covers like a furry hot-water bottle , and although Mildred had only meant to sit and get warm , within a few minutes her eyelids began to droop , and before long she was fast asleep — so fast asleep that she did not hear the door opening very quietly . |
12 | The idea was to try and get working parties going . |
13 | Well I 'll go and get two , three . |
14 | I 'll just try and get two carvers to match |
15 | What we try do and is actually sort of focus in on the branches so that so , to try and get try and get all the strains together . |
16 | Anybody could go and get all this stuff and then not pay |
17 | I can see , can you sha can you go and get all the grass off your socks ! |
18 | I was cleaning , cleaning it up and of course I was tapping it with a hammer was n't I to try and get all the putty you know , try and break the putty and most of it came away and I just tapped this one little |
19 | Uncle Ern said to my cousin Jim who was some six years older than me , ‘ Why do n't you go and get that old box of fag cards for Arthur . ’ |
20 | Shall we go and get that steak ? ’ |
21 | ‘ What you can do is go and get that money . |
22 | double sided printer and I I 'll try and get that verified but |
23 | I 'll have , have to do that later for you because you wo n't be doing it then , this lesson next year , and if your pots do n't go up in the kiln I will be glazing for you , so of course you see the colour and everything we do n't have the time to do that , it 's a shame , well actually they 'll look very smart just with the glaze on , but I 'll try and get that done for you , okay , can you put your hand up if there is |
24 | Er I do n't I think as it goes on y you do start and get that anger that anger so bad , but erm But I 'll leave you to get on Doctor . |
25 | ‘ We have to stop and get that arrow out of your arm . ’ |
26 | Well Lamarckism is named after er , Jean Baptiste Antoine de Monet , better known to us as Lamarck , and the , the prime notion of Lamarckism , according in Darwin , let's try and get that over there a bit more is evolution by will . |
27 | But you do have to still sit down and get that information . |
28 | I , I , I think this must be the hardest business to plan around in the market place Peter , because at the end of the day you 're chasing business , you , you 're looking for business and if I 've got an account , I 'll be honest with you , if I 've got an account tomorrow or , that rings in and it 's in for sort of Friday , yes , and that should be there , and I 'm out of the area Friday , I 'll go across and get that business , I 'd go out of my area and get that business , |
29 | It wants to stay and get that |
30 | When did you go and get that ? |