Example sentences of "[conj] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I suppose I could have written off and got a new length of rubber , or got old Cameron in the ironmonger 's shop to find me something , but it would never feel right again . |
| 2 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 3 | If you 're not happy with what you see in the mirror , maybe you could do with changing your eating habits or getting more exercise . |
| 4 | Medicines also contain colourants , often in very large amounts , which is why you should try to discontinue syrups and tablets during the diet ( as long as your doctor agrees ) or get colouring-free alternatives . |
| 5 | Now if either Phelan or Irwin were to loose form or get injured Kelly would play . |
| 6 | You 'll never get them doin' doggy style or get any fruit out in the bedroom , it 's like straight down and that 's it ! |
| 7 | Well I do n't know yet , we 're trying to sort that one out , we 're trying to either put the load back or get another order to go with it . |
| 8 | To keep profits up , firms will need to lower costs or get more value for their money . |
| 9 | You 've got to use your fingers have n't you or get some pennies out and count them . |
| 10 | A proportion of the farm — or for that matter all of it — is set aside , left fallow , mown once a year while the farmer draws a set fee per acre and manages on the rest or gets another job . |
| 11 | For example , poor-country governments may have an incentive to report GDP as low as possible to qualify for soft loans from international financial institutions , or to get favourable trade treatment . |
| 12 | Ian had a decision coming up : whether to fly home from Miami or to get illegal work in the States and travel some more : ‘ I really want to see Alaska . ’ |
| 13 | the main , or one of the main , reasons for the business ' structure was to avoid registration ( not , say , due to the partial exemption rules or to get limited liability protection or facilitate a part sale ) ; |
| 14 | You may have an automatic right to get these things free or to get maximum help with the costs . |
| 15 | If the symptoms tend to relapse or get more croupy every evening , then Phosphorus may be indicated and should be studied . |
| 16 | If you need to research or get further information , check that this is vital and that you 're not using this as an excuse . |
| 17 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 18 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 19 | That Clenbuterol , the stimulating steroid that got three Brits sent home , is known to its devotees as Dopers Delight . |
| 20 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
| 21 | The poor guy who made it did everything right except get those burr veneers properly adhered to the ground . |
| 22 | In a rather different example from the same period , Scottish TV was so short of cash by February 1970 that it could not pay its ITA rental , nor the levy , nor its bills , nor get further credit from the bank . |
| 23 | This identification and sense of hope are technically possible in the home situation or in hospital but here is a serious risk that family members or medical and nursing staff will , by their own concerned actions intended to help the sufferer to eat , actually thereby enable the addictive disease to continue : there are few hinge the disease likes more than getting other people ( rather than the primary sufferer ) to take responsibility . |
| 24 | Although it is less common than getting lower grades than predicted , some people get much better results and want to consider changing their plans accordingly . |
| 25 | Jim was convinced that politicians were ‘ more interested in Westminster gossip about David Mellor than getting human rights established in law ’ . |
| 26 | It 's not just the likes of The Satanic Verses that get rough treatment in some quarters of the literary establishment . |
| 27 | Oh there 's some on there if you wan na er Joyce was saying that get vast material |
| 28 | ‘ That 's not a word that gets much use now . |
| 29 | The kitchen is the only room on the ground floor that gets regular use these days ( except , of course , for the round-the-clock activity in the laundry room ) . |
| 30 | Then , knowing what we want the group to achieve , set a transfer price that gets each division to decide to operate at the volume we want . |