Example sentences of "[prep] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountain guide Bruno Sprecher dumped King Carl Gustaf after getting a phone call from Fergie . |
| 2 | Daniel told Cardiff Crown Court his father walked past him on the stairs after getting a knife from the kitchen . |
| 3 | The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face . |
| 4 | The owner , tycoon Antony Tannouri , 46 , had planned to sell the masterpieces after getting a £23 million tax demand . |
| 5 | instead of making us do it , or they should of got a school leaver |
| 6 | But I suppose I should of got a couple of quid of |
| 7 | She must of got a grant . |
| 8 | Well I 've sort of got a note to say who did what this week , so I could tell you what I 've done this week and then you could tell me what you 've done this week . |
| 9 | Britain has gone farther than any country in the West towards getting a balance between private affluence and public consumption . |
| 10 | Certainly , we explore this as an avenue towards getting a job specification in place for everybody in the Company . |
| 11 | ‘ For instance , if you 've been working towards getting a client somewhere to live and they get it and they come back to you and say ‘ Thanks ’ , that is simply amazing , ’ says Frances . |
| 12 | Even now for a Pakistani , Indian or Bangladeshi woman waiting to join her husband in Britain it is not a matter of getting a ticket and boarding a plane . |
| 13 | The Queen was escorted on to Platform One at London 's Paddington station and boarded a reserved carriage of the 10.20am train to Oxford without the formality of getting a ticket . |
| 14 | I do n't rate your chances of getting a ticket for the Leeds end , touts never seem to have them coz of hassles with membership cards . |
| 15 | As for the United States , Betty Friedan testified to ‘ the awkward indignity of getting a diaphragm in New York if you were n't married — and sometimes even if you were . ’ |
| 16 | I know , but what I mean is that when they see the city centre , the people who are walking up and down the city centre , they see all the national charities , they do n't necessarily feel that they 're organised in the same way and therefore that they should be participating , and the whole palaver of getting a licence and applying is actually quite difficult , it 's not a simple , it 's not something , we get numerous telephone calls in the office saying ‘ Well can I go out next Saturday and rattle a tin for such-and-such ’ , and you say ‘ Well , you ca n't ’ , and it 's left much too late , so that people do n't know about the way you get licenses to rattle tins in city centre . |
| 17 | ‘ I reckon I will have to win twice to have a chance of getting a Ryder Cup place , ’ he said . |
| 18 | If you live in Oxford , in the City area of Oxford , you have a far higher chance of getting a home help , getting a place in an elderly person 's home , getting a meals on wheels , than anywhere else in the county , and between the different areas of the county there are vast differences in that . |
| 19 | It is an extraordinary assumption that only people with money are articulate councillor , perhaps we should introduce an articulatecy test as a way of getting a council house . |
| 20 | Or I 'd thought of getting a teaching qualification — maybe starting my own commercial language school . ’ |
| 21 | When in 1988 he was entrusted with the job of getting a development programme among local Chinese off the ground , sceptics said it would be a lost cause — Hong Kong rugby hardly boasted a Chinese team at the time . |
| 22 | In fact , the V&A is in danger of getting a reputation for being a peculiarly bad bet ; Pearson 's lost £600,000 when the equally populist ‘ Sovereign ’ exhibition earlier last year also failed to bring in the crowds . |
| 23 | But they can ‘ know ’ them , in the sense of getting a feel for the sort of person they are , a closeness with them , even an affection . |
| 24 | erm Nothing at all really at the moment , erm obviously it 's early days yet as far as erm speedway goes , I mean you 'd imagine it sort of getting a bit late in the day really , to get things organised . |
| 25 | Rent is high , accommodation scarce , and the chances of getting a knife in the stomach far from slim . |
| 26 | Perhaps such a range of activities seemed to endanger his chances of getting a degree but those who thought so had underestimated the strength of his neurotic energy . |
| 27 | There was nothing he could do , no way of getting a message to Caspar at the US Embassy . |
| 28 | And there was no way of getting a message out to say I could n't get out , so she would be left hanging about waiting hopefully . |
| 29 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 30 | All the boys said they were also aware of the danger of getting a girl pregnant . |