Example sentences of "[noun] get [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Antagonism got you nowhere .
2 Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed .
3 ‘ The Frogs got it wrong as usual .
4 ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’
5 His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards .
6 Rescue deal gets you home
7 Obviously mere talent gets you nowhere these days .
8 But Andy worked with the tone on tape to get it so it really came out . ’
9 She died my grandfather died and blacks got it just sold up !
10 Windsurfers got him ashore , but attempts to revive him failed .
11 But while they were hauling various protesting individuals off to the police wagon Maggie got him indoors .
12 He was the first to concede that on occasions a judge got it wrong to the extent that a sentence was passed which was wholly unacceptable .
13 Then they got very in er after two years after the was had started erm South of England got it badly you see .
14 Even when parents get it wrong , Paul 's point is that if you are Christian , your obedience is in the Lord .
15 That West Indians get it even worse ?
16 Thomson gets it away and Forest exert pressure again .
17 ‘ We will be putting in our bid and we will pull out all the stops to get it here . ’
18 ‘ We will be putting in our bid and we will pull out all the stops to get it here . ’
19 But while it may be appealing to the British public , I 'm not making it my life 's work to get it together .
20 In those early days , its isolation on the distant north-west coast seemed to make it unattainable by anyone who had only feet to get him there and whose opportunities were restricted by a busy working life south of the Border , although later I was to discover that a MacBrayne 's bus made the forty-six-mile journey to and from Lairg every weekday .
21 Rows with the shop got him nowhere so he contacted DAS who wrote on his behalf claiming Breach of Contract and threatening to sue .
22 And he went staggering back and of course the horse trough got him here and he sat down in it .
23 If the caddie got it wrong more than twice , he was for the chop !
24 Is the teacher getting it across ? …
25 I sent you the articles that I had in my scrapbook from Colesfield on October tenth , I am looking now at the ones from Gdynia , Poland , on October ninth and its headlines Port Libs hit Poland and Prussia with vast damage caused by wrecker raid on four targets deep in the East , Gdynia , Danzig , German plane plants are blasting great weekend blitz , Bremen and Hanover get it again .
26 Where did Matthew get it then ?
27 He asked the director to get me away from him .
28 ‘ It 's Hickie Borman 's job to get you there , ’ John had said , naming her travel agents .
29 I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ?
30 In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away .
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