Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] get the " in BNC.
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| 1 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 2 | The rich peasants made up another seven percent I have to check to see I 've got the figure 's right the middle peasants , twenty percent the poor peasants seventy percent . |
| 3 | You see I 've got the prob I mean my initial reaction is I mean I I 've got no strong feeling to say we 've got to supply product the stuff it 's cheaper , we make more money , sod it . |
| 4 | I 've got the spare tablets but I mean getting the prescription . |
| 5 | Yeah I mean get the hall but he ca n't get the er you know |
| 6 | I mean to get the tissue paper |
| 7 | I tried to get the trade unions into a form which made my managerial activities easier rather than trying to let them find a consensus between themselves . |
| 8 | I tried to get the book for my sister-in-law for her birthday but most places were sold out . |
| 9 | I tried to get the money . |
| 10 | When it stopped bouncing on what were left of its shock absorbers , I tried to get the driver 's door open but it , and the passenger door , were jammed shut . |
| 11 | I tried to get the dog destroyed , but the vet suggested I have a re-think , so then we had it placed . |
| 12 | Strange one again , but that 's when , when I tried to get the lightning . |
| 13 | I am not so green that I expect to get the sole credit on this movie . |
| 14 | and I bi , you know that big loft I helped get the , get the la big lathe he bought from the |
| 15 | I want to get the now constantly recurring image or memory of the scraggy sheep huddled together at night in the bus shelter off the top of my mind : it is disconcerting to be writing about one thing and yet be presented while doing so with quite another set of pictures . |
| 16 | ‘ If you ca n't get it , come down to what I want to get the fight on . |
| 17 | I want to get the coins . ’ |
| 18 | I want to get the right sort of thing for you . |
| 19 | ‘ Julius , I want to get the bus , ’ she said with some annoyance . |
| 20 | Yes cos I want to get the particular one I want |
| 21 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 22 | Oh I ai n't bothered , I 'm not watching telly anyway , I want to get the you two will have to help me out , when I get home . |
| 23 | Yes I want to get the neckline done . |
| 24 | There were no A-levels or 0-levels and although I once got a hearty handshake for my English book from a kindly Mr. Pickering at Abbeydale School , I seemed to get the cane for almost everything else . |
| 25 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 26 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 27 | The proof of the pudding was in the eating , and in my case I 'd got the ingredients wrong . |
| 28 | I was scared to death , really I thought I 'd got the push . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd got the fire to go — I found some coal and stuff outside — and then the post came , and brought a letter for me — nothing important — which I tried to burn . |
| 30 | Every time I thought I 'd got the hang of it the service changed . |