Example sentences of "get [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you could say I get about a lot without meeting anybody . |
| 2 | Some get about a pound a week , while on girl gets a pound a day , another five pounds a fortnight . |
| 3 | Get off a minute . |
| 4 | We get through a one-gallon tin a day , and sometimes more at the weekends , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Nero has ordered ten thousand hides as they get through a lot of shoe leather with all that clomping . |
| 6 | Seven , a bit big I would , I would n't go bigger than five , you get through a lot more business with four or five . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's a bargain when you consider how much protection you get for a building 's contents alone , ’ says Kelly . |
| 8 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 9 | So they get like a degree or something |
| 10 | Get like an account with somebody . |
| 11 | Well perhaps when each new first-aider qualifies they get like an induction pack or something . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the Brownsea red squirrels are also nervous ; generally they get behind a tree trunk when they hear people approach . |
| 13 | And normally if I get near a computer it goes wrong . |
| 14 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 15 | The other 25 per cent then spend 18 weeks learning to become an officer before they get near an aeroplane . |
| 16 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 17 | You try and get into a factory , it 's just all Indians ’ ( Cochrane and Billig , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | I 'm sure nature did n't mean us to have to wait till we get into a bed ! |
| 19 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 20 | Coetzee understands both related forms : ‘ You get into a person 's private life , inside his inside . |
| 21 | ‘ If we let all the chemicals from a coffee farm get into a river we will have a cumulative problem . ’ |
| 22 | If I get into a structure , if I , if I start trying to learn it I 'm gon na do it all . |
| 23 | If they get into a sweat and stop still too long the sweat will stop suddenly and they get a chill or a headache . |
| 24 | We shall only be blamed if things get into a mess . ’ |
| 25 | The genealogist has a job to sort it all out , so it is no wonder that many rose lists get into a mess and tend to lump types together more for brevity and convenience than for strict botanical clarity . |
| 26 | I feel you almost get into a system of brownie points sometimes . |
| 27 | Get into a jam with , for example , a knot in the yarn , bad knitting and so on and you will be in real trouble . |
| 28 | And if minute ice crystals break away from these frozen drops and get into a monarch 's body through one of its breathing holes , they can , as it were , remind the fluid inside that it , too , should be frozen . |
| 29 | When we get into a panic ( often through stress , fear or anxiety ) , our breathing become rapid and shallow . |
| 30 | Well I think there 's a difficulty with that on , you then get into a difficulty on housing provision for Greater York districts . |