Example sentences of "to get [pron] hands on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WOO JUST HANG ON A SEC I 'm a 19-year-old female wanting to get my hands on a good-looking male ( 19-21 ) . |
| 2 | I could hardly wait , for example , to get my hands on the original ballpoint pen . |
| 3 | If it was , I 'd like to get my hands on the bastard that made it . ’ |
| 4 | In Manila the Philippine government testily rejected Mrs Marcos 's offer of help to the poor , and continued its interminable task of trying to get its hands on the Marcos money . |
| 5 | AT&T is the first company to get its hands on the product , which runs on MVS . |
| 6 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 7 | But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny , the Chancellor can not afford to be generous . |
| 8 | There sure are a lot of people out there who 'll go to any lengths to get their hands on a laser printer , judging by the fantastic response to our February competition . |
| 9 | The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember who or where , but I remember somebody suggesting that clubs should introduce loyalty bonuses so that players are not tempted to leave a club simply to get their hands on a fat signing on fee . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of people are obviously going to be disappointed , but others who are willing to take a chance right up until the match may be lucky to get their hands on a ticket . ’ |
| 12 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 13 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 14 | Hundreds of parents yesterday slept outside Toys R Us stores in Swansea and Bristol in a desperate bid to get their hands on the island . |
| 15 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 16 | Blind children at a college in Worcester ca n't wait to get their hands on the latest batch of adventure stories , translated into braille by computor . |
| 17 | LINFIELD fans anxious to get their hands on the club 's new-look kit will have to wait . |
| 18 | ‘ She wants to get her hands on the boy in the bistro . ’ |
| 19 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 20 | Nothing could lift his mood — not the fact that his supplier had managed to get his hands on a pirate video of the new Schwarzenegger , nor the really quite healthy profit he had made on the afternoon 's racing at York , nor even the fat Havana cigar to which he had treated himself . |
| 21 | She was fortunate in that her income came from a family trust fund , so Ralph had never been able to get his hands on the capital . |
| 22 | ‘ Appen he wants to get his hands on the money from your dad 's books , ’ said Bill Clough , looking around him with eager interest , as if he had made a discovery . |
| 23 | This enhanced importance explains why Oliver Cromwell was so determined to get his hands on the Honours following his victory at Dunbar in September 1650 and his advance into Scotland . |
| 24 | Patrick would have liked to get his hands on the Jaguar , but Jim ate his sandwiches with one hand on the wheel . |
| 25 | He was on the losing side with Everton three times twice against Liverpool and he is determined to get his hands on the trophy this time . |
| 26 | For more details of this therapeutic range plus your chance to get your hands on a free sample , turn to page 54 ! |
| 27 | If you 've ever wanted to get your hands on a Leica then a series of three Day Leica School Courses may give you your chance . |
| 28 | If you 've ever wanted to get your hands on a Leica then a series of three Day Leica School Courses may give you your chance . |
| 29 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 30 | All you have to do to get your hands on the goodies is to study the adverts on this page and pick , from the choice below each ad , the year in which they actually appeared in our Live Ads section . |