Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sarah has gone to see about getting cards printed , but with the weekend it will be difficult . ’ |
| 2 | Firstly the price about , the the points sorry , councillor made about getting housing . |
| 3 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 4 | I never used to worry about getting fat , I supposed that 's one reason I did so much over-eating and got to be 13 ½ stone , which is massive when you 're 5ft 2ins ! |
| 5 | Before driving off , they threatened to kill his wife and daughter if he did not wait before getting help . |
| 6 | K.J. and C. Hayes , after six years of laborious training , had succeeded in getting Vicki to utter only four grunt-like sounds vaguely resembling Mama , Poppa , cup , and up . |
| 7 | His persistent returns to the fray helped to drive Thomson to an early grave-though not before he had succeeded in getting Palmer promoted out of Nigeria . |
| 8 | Erm as far as certification of er th the of a system is concerned er we are still comm committed to getting office certificated and as many of you may be aware the Swindon office has actually overtaken us on the B E S side erm and they are er , but hopefully we will achieve certification for the whole of our group erm prior to Swindon achieving certification for their whole group . |
| 9 | He told reporters the United States was still committed to getting enforcement of the no-fly zone but he left the impression US allies were still opposed . |
| 10 | But on the other hand , I was furious ; I thought : this is ridiculous , why should n't I go out wearing what I want without getting hassle ? |
| 11 | At the same time , those attentive to issues of national and international development raised the question of whether the strategy for participation of women in the media should concentrate on getting women into mainstream media or creating ‘ alternative ’ media institutions to serve the interests of women and meet the communication needs unserved by male-controlled media . |
| 12 | This town alongside a hugh lake where fishing , sailing , windsurfing , swimming and just about every other aquatic sport you can think of gets waterspace . |
| 13 | well specification and training I mean what 's he gon na do about getting people |
| 14 | er nearly well that 's the best thing I 've seen for getting sort of properly qualified erm |
| 15 | One [ booklet ] was connected with getting books out of the library , the other was connected with how you use these books for projects . |
| 16 | Here Flora has too much to content with ; but she does succeed in getting Percy , her father-in-law — one of those rich , plebeian businessmen this author toes so well — to marry his mistress , Barbara . |
| 17 | In a series of private discussions with congressmen on Capitol Hill , Mr Major was asked only once directly about Ulster and replied that progress was being made in getting people round the table for negotiations . |
| 18 | Progress was made in getting production back to planned levels at Doornfontein , where losses marked time at about R7m . |
| 19 | Moss believes much of Tivoli 's future success depends on getting framework technology and solutions out through the Unix channels . |
| 20 | Such enquiries may be answered by getting data from a number of different areas in the database ( for example sales , product and employee data to compare last year 's with this year 's performance ) . |
| 21 | Is there not two separate problems that we have to find them first and then the , then worrying about getting people to the theatre |
| 22 | Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world . |
| 23 | She 'd never dreamed of getting work in a place like this . |
| 24 | Erm how have things been going with getting lectures ? |
| 25 | Chatterbox succeeds in getting children to speak English by drawing on all their favourite things . |
| 26 | A much sounder basis for doubt is the worry that legalisation would increase drug-taking , and that rising consumption and addiction would overwhelm the gains to be had from getting drugs within the law . |
| 27 | ‘ All the grown-ups have to help in getting food for the community . |
| 28 | It was felt that training in West Belfast under YTP and JTP did not prepare people , especially the young , for jobs in industry and was not geared towards getting work . |
| 29 | Reminiscence is to do with getting people to use parts of their memory that actually do work . |
| 30 | ‘ The distributors have their job to do in getting people into theatres to watch their movie . |