Example sentences of "have get [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIl servicemen must return to the West before 0030 hours , but tonight only five out of the group of six are back on time at Checkpoint Charlie ; one has got lost along the way . |
| 2 | After I 'd got used to the idea I helped to count the sticks and tie them up in bundles . |
| 3 | ‘ The snow-ploughs wo n't be out till early morning , and if you 'd got stuck in the middle of nowhere … ’ |
| 4 | Are they coming onto your support workers calling on the families at this time to help them erm because this will be the time when the families will need help and also naturally the residents who are normally at the centre , having got used to the centre , as we know , there could be difficulties there and I 'd like to have the please . |
| 5 | This may sound bureaucratic and boring but without it there are bound to be anguishing problems of the kind : ‘ I handed in my work on time but it must have got lost in the pile ’ . |
| 6 | Afterwards , he could always claim that it was sent to an old or wrong address by mistake , or that it must have got lost in the post . |
| 7 | But it really is , it might have got lost in the paragraph mighten it ? |
| 8 | ‘ It was over before we knew it , ’ said Taliesin later , ‘ and even if it had not been , I do not think we could have got near to the Lad . ’ |
| 9 | She would have to get used to the way she looked in black and white . |
| 10 | The public will have to get used to the idea that the electricity board can switch off room heaters or water heaters by remote control . |
| 11 | I did want to lose weight so much for it , but have had very little success so will have to get used to the idea of being the back-end-of-a-bus in comparison to Heather . |
| 12 | ‘ Sorry , my girl , I am , and you 'll just have to get used to the idea . |
| 13 | Pete Messenger 's licence to grow hemp increases from 5 to 500 acres next year — so the local drug squad will have to get used to the idea of legal fields of cannabis in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Er we do have to get involved with the community and we just find ourselves drawn into the community without any real problems . |
| 15 | The justification seems to have got lost along the way , but the attitude has prevailed until recently — you could argue about precise dates , but Philip Larkin plumped for 1963 — and it 's not done for yet . |
| 16 | CIDER sales are fizzing — but Merrydown seems to have got lost on the way to the party . |
| 17 | ‘ Old ’ Democrats are going to have to get used to the fact that there is not enough money for the huge array of new programmes they want ( especially if health care reform costs an additional $100 billion , as it may ) . |
| 18 | You 've got used to the taste of the good life , have n't you ? |
| 19 | ‘ You know , ’ I said , ‘ I 've got used to the chlorine in this water . ’ |
| 20 | I think we 've got accustomed to the idea because of AIDS and the number of unwanted pregnancies . |
| 21 | Daniel 's Dad , the engine-driver , when living , had got drunk in the pub first and at home later : there had been gusto , jollity , somnolence and regret . |
| 22 | They had got lost along the way . |
| 23 | I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions . |
| 24 | I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions . |
| 25 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
| 26 | But David had always worked by himself , so I had got used to the idea that I would never play with him , much as I wanted to . |
| 27 | It was as if , said Callaghan , they had got bored with the subject , and suddenly ‘ chucked a bucket of whitewash over it . ’ |
| 28 | It did not so much reach a conclusion as slow down and dribble into silence , as though the players had got bored with the melody and let it slip through their fingers carelessly . |
| 29 | By the time he had got clear of the dog fight the Albatros was a couple of hundred yards away , closing on the two-seater as it chugged westwards against the implacable wind . |
| 30 | PC Stephen Huntrod climbed four storeys to rescue a 19-year-old man who had got stuck on the roof of the unsafe Old Vic theatre in Front Street , Stanley , in November . |