Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milne — who made a brief appearance in the game against Wombats — has done a grand job getting sponsorship from , among others , Royal Mail Scotland , while the luminaries he has persuaded to play include Roger Baird , Finlay Calder , Jim Calder , Jim Aitken , Euan Kennedy , Alan Tomes and Jim Renwick . |
| 2 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 3 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 4 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 5 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 7 | The increasing ownership of telephones has created a greater inclination to get in touch with the police . |
| 8 | In an attempt to change that , the Census Bureau has launched a vigorous campaign to get as many people as possible to answer its questions . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around ’ , Nigel explains . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around , ’ Nigel explains . |
| 11 | We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 13 | Do children have to cross a busy street to get to it ? |
| 14 | ‘ We would have preferred an earlier chance to get back on the rails , ’ admitted Thompson , whose side 's defeat ended a run of six consecutive wins . |
| 15 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |
| 16 | At this point , we must admit you do have to press a few buttons to get Delta service . |
| 17 | inge , we 're our own which means that we are , our problems are so limited that we actually carry the liability ourselves , we do n't even have to use an external company to get the rates on . |
| 18 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |
| 19 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 20 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 21 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 22 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 23 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 24 | The friends , all from the Meadowfield and Brandon area of County Durham , had stayed overnight on their way home and had made an early start to get back in time to play in a Sunday League fixture for their local pub team . |
| 25 | you 've got ta think er think , it was like erm one of the guys was saying oh I 've got a real problem getting the names , I said well how do you ask and he said well look I 'm in the people business John but I do n't suppose you know anybody do you |
| 26 | Yes , I think we 'll have to have have a good look , yes it 's alright when you 've got a few things to get , but when when you 've got the whole list . |
| 27 | With a soft top , yeah the easiest thing to do is just get a knife , stick it in and slit it and you 've got a little hole to get in . |
| 28 | So the platers had to use a manual override to get any production at all . |
| 29 | He 's got a big nose got big ears . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |