Example sentences of "[vb base] get [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I really enjoy watching boxing and try to get to see a few sports programmes every week .
2 After rugged David Shearer barged over Jimmy Carter and Lee Dixon before firing home Blackburn 's 85th-minute decider , Graham conceded : ‘ We 've got to put the physical side of our game back in place — even if it means sacrificing some of the attractive football we want to play . ’
3 It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in .
4 Four fi five and a quarter tax free , you 've got to put an awful lot of money in the building society to get that sort of return have n't you ?
5 Is that a oh no you 've got to , Amy you 've got to press the standby button .
6 Er but erm the fact is i if you 're a non-taxpayer , obviously we 've got to take a different view of the way you that you might invest money .
7 this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't
8 You 've got to take the whole lot as a unit .
9 I went to see a patient , a , a , a woman who 's husband had died they 're a pa a pain because you want to ring nine nine you 've got to take the darn lock off , there 's er trying
10 And therefore you 've got to take the shortest route across .
11 If that means that I 've got to upset a few people because I 'm trying to prevent somebody 's life being lost then I will upset those people .
12 and you 've got to go the other way .
13 I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way .
14 It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work .
15 And then you 've got to dial the right numbers or else you wo n't get grandma , you 'll get somebody else .
16 You 've got to lift the whole lot off the wall and unthread the curtains and put back the right number of rings and hooks and it 's a palaver and I have n't done it .
17 Yes , but lo , but then we 've so , we 've got to pre-judge a little bit then , as to what illness they 're going to have , and that gets a bit difficult .
18 So , the there there is a distinction in terms there , you 've got to do a literal translation first .
19 Well maybe they do , but we take this we always take this as a year on year situation and you 've got to do a longer term comparison if you 're going to get the true effect of the services
20 I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others .
21 Taking that on you might say with interviewing , that you know , You 've got to do an interviewing course every three years .
22 But you 've got to do the right kind of exercise to get the effect er and again when you come to stamina it 's got to be , you 've got to have a bit of the all round to go with the stamina .
23 On the hotel the sequence was I 've got to do the first-fix plumbing before I do the second-fix plumbing .
24 without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access .
25 Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave .
26 You 've got to give the same numbers
27 You 've got to carry a little packet with you because who goes to said please can you put your condom on .
28 If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message .
29 you 've got to join the Liberal Party and you 've got to be related to Ian
30 I 've got make a fresh lot .
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