Example sentences of "get [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | its got nothing to do with it |
| 2 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 3 | Aye , so you end up marking it then and er , well she did , she got me to go there second time , and he said well you ca n't you see er |
| 4 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 5 | Well that was OK , but then , to my horror , he got me to join in singing one of his songs . |
| 6 | So it was the likes of that and these things that got me to know my staff and got my staff to know me . |
| 7 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 8 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 9 | ( 171b ) She got me to look stupid . |
| 10 | Dad got me to read aloud to him and then offered me a barley sugar . |
| 11 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 12 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 13 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 14 | But they did , they got me to change , because I suppose all the words up there , and I 'm gon na find three most significant ones that and change , er , because while you influence somebody to turn from what they were doing , probably not too often , but it 's usually about something , when you think about the examples that you brought along , and you knew all about change . |
| 15 | Only three boys understood and I got them to explain in Arabic to the rest . |
| 16 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 17 | Mahmoud got them to go through the events of the night . |
| 18 | " When I was dealing with the men personally I generally got them to see matters from my point of view , but unfortunately I could not stay in any one port for any length of time ; my subordinates did not have the same control over men as I did " . |
| 19 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 20 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 21 | He went in to his bank and got them to print new cheque-books , and instead of signing ‘ N.O. Russell ’ , he now signed ‘ Oliver Russell ’ . |
| 22 | Now ten years later he conceived a simple notion : as the Girls were kicking , he got them to link their arms around each other 's waists . |
| 23 | Yet , it is clear that the photographer has in fact got them to pose , dressed up in their smartest clothes . |
| 24 | The Americans got them to debate the League of Nations . |
| 25 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 26 | We got them to show us Moonstruck three times , enjoying it more each time as we anticipated our favourite scenes . |
| 27 | I got them to try all the recipes in the book — even a mouthful of chitterlings . |
| 28 | He regularly forgot his wallet and credit cards and got them to pay for him or be content with what could be bought on a little small change . |
| 29 | With the help of Captain Audrey Couper and Commander Ian Johnson , Private Wensley got them to stay quiet . |
| 30 | She showed these children a series of pictures and got them to tell a story about what they had seen . |