Example sentences of "[verb] get [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well ours has got loads more pupils than theirs ! |
| 2 | And you think , Bloody hell , well I 'm not surprised they can guarantee getting P fives . |
| 3 | He tried to get Nellie interested in all the arrangements . |
| 4 | He really wants to get things right . |
| 5 | I am especially grateful to my hon. Friend the Minister for Roads and Traffic , who has paid particular attention to the problem over recent months to try to get things right . |
| 6 | Merseyside is also expected to get Objective 1 status , a designation which now covers a quarter of the EC population including the former eastern Germany , Greece , Corsica , southern Italy , Portugal , Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Cos she 's got got gas central heating in house . |
| 8 | Now I 'm going to get stinko bloody paralytico . |
| 9 | If that 's at all true , I 'd like to help to get things straight . |
| 10 | Oh we 've got to get whiskers first . |
| 11 | You 've just got to get people excited . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No , child , I had enough to do getting things ready for the party . ’ |
| 13 | International : Expo 92 will be ready manana Seville struggles to get show ready |
| 14 | We all like to get things right do n't we ? |
| 15 | ‘ We like to get things right . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ So it was , but I like to get things straight . ’ |
| 17 | At last , they thought , the Islands Council was beginning to get things right . |
| 18 | And it 's when the drama becomes " tingly " that we know our organisation is working well ; that we 're beginning to get things right intuitively . |
| 19 | A lot of players decide to ‘ invest ’ their money into stupid things like running a pub , when they ve got shit all business acumen . |
| 20 | The Home itself is the first place to start getting people active , and there are all kinds of things which can be done which only need a bit of imagination and common sense rather than expense . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have to get Nicola some suitable green wellies , ’ she suggested nastily . |
| 22 | Right erm I shall have to get Muriel some change actually . |
| 23 | Also , it is able to supply kit within five days in line with current market requirements ; it has a UK stockpile of components for repairs and maintenance ; its pricing is right , and it is starting to get distribution right . |
| 24 | And finally , Most Reds Potted In A Row Without Managing To Get A Single Colour With Them : 15 over two consecutive frames . |
| 25 | When the guests had gone he managed to get Chris alone and tell her . |
| 26 | However little his lordship might think of Birmingham or a Birmingham man , he failed to get admission that night to the platform and was ‘ left swearing ’ . |
| 27 | I got to get Matt some sweets . |
| 28 | Erm the judges , seventy five er and that 's ten pound less than last year , maybe because we 're struggling to get judges forty two pound for the trophies erm er , fifteen pound for the fish tank and plates at seventy five forty seven , crisps , eight seventy eight , which we struggled to sell we think you could sell crisps but we had a struggle . |
| 29 | The closer men get to God the nastier they get : the more judgemental , the more punitive , the more murderous in their determination to have got God right , and everyone else to have got God wrong . |
| 30 | British companies were , generally speaking , increasing in size through mergers and consolidation , so the stakes were that much higher and they could not afford to get things wrong ; they needed new management teams to run taken-over businesses ; industrial plants were growing in scale ; finance was becoming more complex ; business was tending to be more and more international ; American operations were penetrating many European markets ; and Britain was facing a host of unprecedented economic pressures and new competition with the post-war recovery of Germany and Japan . |