Example sentences of "[noun sg] get [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antagonism got you nowhere . |
| 2 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 3 | His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards . |
| 4 | Rescue deal gets you home |
| 5 | Obviously mere talent gets you nowhere these days . |
| 6 | If we moved in then we 'd have to spend fifty thousand pound to get it up to scratch . |
| 7 | You 're talking about sixteen , seventeen hundred pound to get you through . |
| 8 | Was he being charitable for once , or was it another attempt to get her out of Peter 's life ? |
| 9 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 10 | Once as we invaded his bedroom to get him up we said " Why are you so white when Uncle Niel 's so brown ? " |
| 11 | ‘ Stick it , you should be alright , there 's enough of the good sea in your blood to get you through . |
| 12 | Small businesses see it as a boost to get them out of recession while other , larger firms criticised Mr Lamont . |
| 13 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 14 | But Andy worked with the tone on tape to get it so it really came out . ’ |
| 15 | It will be a pleasure to get them off my chest ! ’ |
| 16 | Me auntie got it up there and when she got up there they were selling them for nineteen pounds . |
| 17 | He was the first to concede that on occasions a judge got it wrong to the extent that a sentence was passed which was wholly unacceptable . |
| 18 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 19 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 20 | By then I 'll have worked out a plan to get us back behind our own lines . ’ |
| 21 | " If you had an ounce of sense in your brain , you 'd think of some plan to get us out of our difficulty ! " |
| 22 | She needs assistance to get her on and off the toilet and in cleaning herself after opening her bowels . |
| 23 | He 's organising a campaign to get it back and five hundred villagers have signed a petition . |
| 24 | But while it may be appealing to the British public , I 'm not making it my life 's work to get it together . |
| 25 | You think the girl knocked him off , and then hired some help to get him out of there ? ’ |
| 26 | Stored away from the attentions of the KGB , Ivars Ozols Cirrus Minor powered aircraft requires help to get it back into the air . |
| 27 | Barry might well be back any second to get me out of this . ’ |
| 28 | So if the lady was on fire , you 'd leave it basically to the Fire Brigade , obviously if you could help the lady , get a ladder up to the window to get her out of the room or something like that , you would do that , you would help in any way you can , but the real experts are the Fire Brigade so we leave all the er real technical stuff to the Fire Brigade . |
| 29 | I dashed out down the street to the pub to get him round to the cottage before Mr Vulcan changed his mind . |
| 30 | One day it took us a day and a half to get it back again . |