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 . |