Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm which had fire-proofed the building got high praise for the containment of the blaze . |
| 2 | Thus , offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift , although we came across only one instance where this was done . |
| 3 | The results thus apparently conformed to the pattern of alternation between Awlad Amira and Mannaia , those groups in the vanguard of internecine struggle and ethnic oppression getting disproportionate office . |
| 4 | I 've always done this , and have never known a horse get chapped heels or skin infections — whereas I have known horses whose owners follow the first course get mud fever . |
| 5 | Jaguar Reinvests the E-type Exciting V8 sports car gets green light |
| 6 | Why should jazz get preferential treatment ? |
| 7 | Irish coalition gets temporary reprieve |
| 8 | I keep thinking of Joyce 's lovely airy , chintzy fiat but any mention gets short shrift . |
| 9 | Such a feature is clearly a waste of time if you are a reasonably expert photographer ( and there is no bar code reader input on the professional EOS models ) , but it helps the non-expert to get good results . |
| 10 | Using a fast film such as 1000ASA , one can use the aquarium lights supplemented by natural light to get reasonable photographs without using flash . |
| 11 | To fit a cylinder thermostat to a pre-insulated cylinder , cut away the insulation to get metal-to-metal contact |
| 12 | His attempt to get legal redress in a particularly flagrant case ( in which the Christmas Carol was pirated virtually wholesale ) proved totally frustrating . |
| 13 | Here the changes are an attempt to get clean possession . |
| 14 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |
| 15 | But her daughter has been placed into foster care and now the father is making an all-out bid to get legal custody . |
| 16 | But , for many people all that will ever be needed is a program which provides word processing with the capability to get decent quality print out of a page printer . |
| 17 | Sharpe used only speed to get past players … that s why you do nt see him go past players much anymore … cos he ca nt run fast enough . |
| 18 | What was very difficult to prove — but was much suspected , especially in the late 1940s , at the time of the first Press Commission — was that advertisers used their leverage to get favourable coverage and dampen criticism . |
| 19 | They 'll take no profit from this deal to get Russian children back to school . |
| 20 | Tony it was who organized the bi-weekly dances in the ‘ Sunset Hall ’ as he christened the disused museum , and who scoured the neighbourhood to get regular orders for the cakes Susan made so well . |
| 21 | ‘ Cat got yer' tongue ? ’ |
| 22 | ( It had been the practice for the climber to go to the top and give the fox a spin , but in 1984 the committee got cold feet when it found they might not be fully insured for the climber and a separate insurance would cost too much . |
| 23 | Darlington boy gets new hockey challenge |
| 24 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |
| 25 | Playground plan gets go-ahead A HOLIDAY playground for children in an East Cleveland village has received the blessing of Langbaurgh councillors . |
| 26 | Hillhouse lab gets prestigious NAMAS stamp of approval |
| 27 | Intel Scientific is readying a plan to get low-end versions of its i860 RISC-based massively parallel systems into universities and other sites that ca n't afford the full-blow Paragon XP/S models : Paragon 's OSF/1 microkernel operating system is due this month . |
| 28 | Intel Corp 's Intel Scientific is readying a plan to get low-end versions of its 80860 RISC-based massively parallel systems into universities and other sites that ca n't afford the full-blow Paragon XP/S models ; Paragon 's OSF/1 microkernel operating system is due this month . |
| 29 | Lynn Boyle , a social worker from area 2 , told how the Inland Revenue had scuppered a plan to get unemployed women to provide informal care in return for expenses and small payments . |
| 30 | AFTER a year-and-a-half of letter writing , phone calling and door knocking , there are rumours the campaign to get sleeping policemen in St Olaves Road , Bury St Edmunds , has succeeded . |