Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , one of them went to a cash machine to try to get money from her account . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would have been a good excuse to use to get Mr Parnham off his back . |
| 5 | US troops prepared to storm into war-ravaged Somalia last night to help get food aid to starving civilians . |
| 6 | This is a typical problem that would come into one of our advice centres where a consumer has bought something , f failed to get any satisfaction from the shop and then has gone to the advice centre to er has found and tries to find the nearest Citizen 's Advice Bureau or Advice Centre to try to get advice . |
| 7 | The girl , of Pitsea , Essex , has spent 14 hours a day with two specially trained policewomen and a counsellor to try to get information on the rapist . |
| 8 | Major Burrows suffered a great deal with asthma and had taken leave from the corps for a year to try to get control of the symptoms which were becoming chronic . |
| 9 | There is one way to avoid getting camp ons maturing on the telephone which is . |
| 10 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 11 | Anybody know which membership token to send to get discount for the Sunderland match ? ? |