Example sentences of "get [pron] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 2 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |
| 3 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 4 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 5 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 6 | Just get you on the other charges . ’ |
| 7 | Erm you go down a bit of a lane and it 's gets you on the through road does n't it ? |
| 8 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 9 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 10 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 11 | It takes little to get me on the right lines . |
| 12 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 13 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 14 | ‘ That 'll get us on the right footing , ’ he said , ‘ and no arguments . |