Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was hard in way handing over to the Prince of Wales Own Regiment — you wanted to carry helping to get aid through to people who so desperately needed it . |
| 2 | Zeno and Pascoe faced each other , Pascoe circling to try to get advantage from the light . |
| 3 | OH YEH , HE 'S GOING TO LOVE GOING OUT WITH SOMEONE EVERYONE THINKS HAS GOT HIV INFECTION . |
| 4 | Ah , and you want want to get dad out of here ay ? |
| 5 | Next , if you want to try to get sponsorship then write to the importers or dealers in this country — their addresses are in the ads of this magazine — do n't try writing direct to the USA , they wo n't want to know . |
| 6 | Tony is as Trevor said is has has has got aspirations |
| 7 | Its ‘ business as usual ’ slogan has helped to get passengers accustomed to flying on bankrupt airlines . |
| 8 | ‘ But , but , but the Abbot has gone to get help , ’ said a lady nome uncertainly . |
| 9 | She has tried to get hold of him . |
| 10 | Yet it is plainly obvious to anyone who works in central London , or has tried to get admission to hospital there , that this is untrue . |
| 11 | And these are people like you say have got pride in finishing things off , you know there 's a lot of people within groups who do n't mind starting things off but do n't fancy finishing them . |
| 12 | Inside will be any heroin Jamie has managed to get hold of , a tube and tin foil for smoking , plus needles for shooting up . |
| 13 | Xhibition 93 has managed to get COSE to agree to a question-and-answer session by application developers and computing managers during the Xhibition Executive Conference in San Jose . |
| 14 | Thank goodness she 'd thought to get Naylor 's word about her job . |
| 15 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 16 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 17 | The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan 's coat . |
| 18 | It was Zoya , a friend from work , asking Anna if she 'd managed to get soap . |
| 19 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . |
| 20 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post . |
| 21 | And I was going to try to get hold of Mark . |
| 22 | Francis has got to try to get Hirst back to business quickly , and the player himself should realise that this dream of glory can become reality under the guidance of Francis . |
| 23 | Glass has been given to believe that there may be a future for him and Maria together , so he has agreed to help get Leonard out of Berlin . |
| 24 | If that 's at all true , I 'd like to help to get things straight . |
| 25 | Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we 've had to pay to get inflation down . |
| 26 | He told MPs rising unemployment of the recession have been the price we have had to pay to get inflation down . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , we 're going to have to get jobs . |
| 28 | Let's stop trying to get women to support us by crawling to them — it 's obvious they prefer voting for devils or weeds than for decent men ( let alone decent women ) , and bribing them with a Women 's Ministry did n't work . |
| 29 | A lot of people I know have got satellite television but it is quite expensive and somehow , I can not see mum agreeing to it ! |
| 30 | Most people that I know have got cars . |