Example sentences of "[verb] get [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you know erm the letter , the reply went back from Dave saying that every you know , possible thing was done to get bilingual staff but at the end of the day you know they could n't come up with the goods . |
| 2 | ‘ We will have to get other people to write for us because it 's going to be more than 100 pages . ’ |
| 3 | Only Sotheby 's New York attempt to get large works into the building and even they are sometimes reduced to ‘ displaying ’ major lots on the pavement outside . |
| 4 | Choosing to get pregnant means letting go of control . |
| 5 | But then you see you 've got places like the weighing room , jockeys areas which basically y you 've got temporary staff there , or casual staff . |
| 6 | You 've got temporary staff on the gates |
| 7 | Keep the cheapskates parade they 've got inflatable sheep and all sorts for set up here oh it 's still number one then |
| 8 | But on many occasions you 've got talented people who just do n't fill the job specifications , but whose qualities , put to an objective agreed by everybody , are valuable beyond measure . |
| 9 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 10 | tend to be like , you do n't watch your own when you 've got other people 's to watch |
| 11 | Whether we like it or not , we , we 've got elderly people to look after , a lot of them , and whether we like it or not , there has been a change in attitude of the government . |
| 12 | And if you can express what you 're doing in a way which catches their imagination , you 've got marvellous media material . |
| 13 | And I do n't know what it was but they all seemed to say the same , the visitors , they all used to say , you 've got lovely fruit here . |
| 14 | And providing encouragement for both Livermore and Clemence he said : ‘ We 've got excellent people in those two . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got excellent people in Doug and Ray . |
| 16 | And you 've got fresh fruit for afters anyway . |
| 17 | Yeah , whoever put this plant on the stairs did n't realize that we 've got silly people like you in the house |
| 18 | whoever 's put that plant on the stairs does n't realize we 've got silly people like you in the house , just have a look |
| 19 | They go pow they 've got french people being fired at |
| 20 | when you 've got white people next door at least you can hear the music |
| 21 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 22 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 23 | You criticize aid agencies for trying to get affluent people interested in the welfare of Third World poor , without offering practicable alternatives . |
| 24 | We had to get other people to finish off the work . ’ |
| 25 | He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic . |
| 26 | talking about I mean us six er pe peasants we 've got a landlord , you know , oh shall we go and kill him , he , he 's got all the authority , he 's got armed militia , the works , now to me he could have |
| 27 | She 's got other people to do all that for her . |
| 28 | Celia has managed to get fresh fish today and she 's cooked it in spices , just how you like it . ’ |
| 29 | You still have to get good people in their fifties . |