Example sentences of "they get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reluctance , by a few , to accept these small changes has resulted in them getting the system wrong . |
| 2 | If you get in the wrong part of a ruck and they think you are stopping them getting the ball , you get raked . |
| 3 | Crime creates many victims and , despite our claim to be a caring society , not all of them get the help and support they deserve . |
| 4 | And they got the usual terse rejection-slip to that effect . |
| 5 | Y'know when England had men like Bobby Charlton , they knew what to do if they got the ball . |
| 6 | She said a majority of women had voted Tory since they got the right to vote , but a profound shift was now taking place . |
| 7 | Midge happened to be standing next to them in the shop where they got the bum 's rush . |
| 8 | They got the impression that he was well into it but , in fact , it was only about a week before that he 'd started to get interested . |
| 9 | So I cancelled the gig and they got the piano that was the right size and the gig was back on . |
| 10 | After all , reckoned America 's lawmakers , these bosses know most about what needs to be done — never mind that they got the firm into trouble in the first place . |
| 11 | Reactors to the TB test were first found in their herd in January 1986 but after only three months they got the all-clear again . |
| 12 | In that case they got the wrong man . |
| 13 | ‘ Straightaway they got the mood of what we wanted . ’ |
| 14 | I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead . |
| 15 | Prutec chief executive , Derek Allam told New Scientist : ‘ Although we saw Speywood as combining manufacturing on the one hand and R&D on the other , they got the balance wrong . ’ |
| 16 | Settlers , too , when they got the opportunity , liked to bask in what they supposed to be the approbation of the Masai . |
| 17 | I 'm really glad that Jeff Beck and Joe Satriani found the Nigel Tufnel article so brilliant ; I bet they paid their £1.80 on the nail when they got the magazine . |
| 18 | FRONT GATE : They got the hall and the bridge , but they 're not getting the front gate . |
| 19 | In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands . |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder where they got the money to buy them ? ’ |
| 21 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
| 22 | They got the wrong island , wrong producers , so what do they know , going on about these mad drug stories and us not getting our shit together ? |
| 23 | Sales manager Rikki Johnstone said they got the idea after roadworks created traffic jams outside their garage at Winchester . |
| 24 | They got the look . |
| 25 | They got the verbals . |
| 26 | They got the song titles . |
| 27 | They got the lot … except they sound like Edwyn Collins crooning along to MBV with his face pushed up hard against a plate glass window . |
| 28 | ‘ They got the cartridge cases … ’ |
| 29 | I repeated it , twice , before they got the message . |
| 30 | They heard Fats Domino on the radio and tried to copy him but they got the bass drum and the snare all wrong and in the end they created this new music . |